Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.tech:16810 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:4990 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Cheap 68030s Message-ID: <7239@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 9 Dec 90 14:17:32 GMT Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 15 There is a chip called the 68EC030, which is basically a 68030 with the MMU cut out (according to Tyler Sperry, editor of Embedded Systems Programming, it looks like they had a batch of 68030s with broken MMUs and decided to sell them as embedded controllers. Be that as it may...). This would make a nice chip to put in a LUCAS-style board. It doesn't have an MMU, but that's not a major problem in an Amiga. No, you can't play games with moving the ROMs into protected RAM, but it should hum along just fine as an accelerator. I don't know how much cheaper this chip is, but it should be worthwhile to have a look at it. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .