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From: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland)
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Subject: Re: second thoughts on buying a 3000UX
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Date: 27 Feb 91 03:02:17 GMT
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>In article <61751@masscomp.westford.ccur.com>, rtc@westford.ccur.com (Robert Chesler) writes:
>> What's the deal with getting a 50Mhz CPU clock speed?  What's the deal with 
>> getting a 68040 CPU?  Are they really available?  How much more cost? 
>
>The _deal_ is that _currently_ there are no 68040 boards available 
>for the A3000, nor a 68030 replacement.  I don't recall Commodore 
>promising one.
>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> --Robert
>
 The current 68040 situation to the best of my knowledge is
third-party.  Three boards "exist":  I have heard of the GVP
board, seen the Supra 040 board in its little box, and seen the
Progressive Peripheral's 040DC board running at blazemonger
speeds.  (bonus:  the 040DC employs real-time storage data
compression).  

I've seen none of these on any dealers' shelves.  The PP 040DC
board listed at about $1200, or $950 or so without the data
compression part.


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