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From: jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Slow GVP '030 accelerator board
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Date: 21 Nov 90 13:28:22 GMT
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lkoop@pnet01.cts.com (Lamonte Koop) writes:
>                                                                If it
>were the case that it was this bad, there would be little market for the
>various 68020 accelerators around which have no 32-bit memory facilities...

Hey, who said the every configuration had to make sense?  If that were true,
there wouldn't be any el cheapo .41mm dot pitch "VGA" monitors. :-)

Seriously, there are two reasons that I can think of for _selling_ a 32-bit
accellerator w/o 32-bit memory:

1) It allows one to use an FPU.

2) It makes your base price lower than your competition's, even if the
   base configuration isn't really usable.

Unfortunately, only the first is reason enough to _buy_ one.

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