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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mobius 030 Accelerator & Two Page Display
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Date: 14 Jan 91 12:25:14 GMT
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In <129781.278EBBE0@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:

>Hope you're not one of those getting all excited about getting virtual memory
>with an 030 board.  The 68EC030 can't do that.

Wrong, and right.  Right that the 68EC030 has no MMU.  Wrong that the *board*
can't do virtual memory.  I talked to someone at Mobius and he told me they
designed a socket for a PMMU onto the board.  It *will* do virtual memory if
you buy the PMMU option.  I don't remember now what he said that would cost
extra -- something like $250.

I'm *very* interested in this myself.  Has someone seen the monitor?  The
fellow I talked to from Mobius said this was the same tube that Radius uses.
Methinks he was mistaken.  The MacUser article I have lists Zenith as the
manufacturer for the MegaGraphics Rival, but not Radius.  Maybe that's what he
meant.

I asked about memory.  The board will either use the SE memory you have or you
can load it up with 4M SIMMs.  He said they'd tested it with System 7.  I asked
about A/UX, and he said "not tested".

He said they were getting overwhelmed with interest in this, and I don't doubt
it.  The Mobius 1-page display has gotten pretty favorable comment on the net;
if the two-page display is decent, hey, this is a DEAL!
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