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From: seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Surely a IIFX blows an Amiga 3000 away, right?
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Date: 2 Nov 90 20:16:08 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from Patrick.Hayes@cediag.bull.fr

 
Just wanted to clear something up...
 
While the CPU-Slot on the A3000 does have 200 pins, the MC68040 does not.  The
'040 comes in a 179-pin package, which is still above the ][fx's 144-pin PDS,
but it shouldn't be too difficult to adapt.  Don't take my word for it though,
I'm no hardware techie...
 
And while the most people just think of the CPU-Slot as an '040 slot waiting
to be filled, they forget that it can also be used by a high-speed static-RAM
cache card, and has addressing for up to 128MB of RAM.
 
Sean
 
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