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From: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Will A3500UX have an 68040?
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Date: 18 Jan 91 19:54:40 GMT
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daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>In article <9101140911.16.855@INSIDER> sysop@insider.zer.sub.org writes:

>>>...CBM reps and Amiga experts have said that the Amiga3000's
>>>CPU slot can handle an 040, and was designed with the 040 in mind.

>>Sure... what I meant was putting an 040 on the motherboard.

>The coprocessor board concept is far from a kludge.  It is something we 
>intended to use from the beginning, in real system setups.  We could have
>built a basic 68020 or 68030 based Amiga 2500, with the CPU on the 
>motherboard rather than in a coprocessor slot.  But that would have given
>you no advantage, and us several disadvantages: [1] no simple upgrade for
>A2000 owners, [2] too many different Amiga models.  


Gee, If you guys had not thought of the coprocessor board for Amigas, we could
be more like Macs, with about 3 dozen different models :-) 


What I'd like to see would be ADOS taking advantage of the two ( or
more ) CPUs in a system with a coprocessor board installed.