Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Path: utzoo!telly!problem!intacc!peterb
From: peterb@intacc.uucp (Peter James Bowmar)
Subject: Mega-Midget Racer
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.213810.854@intacc.uucp>
Reply-To: peterb@intacc.UUCP (Peter James Bowmar)
Organization: Inter/Access
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1991 21:38:10 GMT


Well, I got the Mega-Midget Racer, and I can't say I'm sorry. I had some
hassles actually getting the thing (I couriered my money order down,
and they shipped 3 weeks later) but once it finally arrived it has
performed well. I have the 33mhz '030 and 33mhz 882 version, with the
non-MMU 68030. (it's cheaper, that's why). I have no, as yet, 32bit
memory or the static ram ROMS thing, but it still speeds up Lightwave
renders by about 6x. Not too bad, although Lightwave is still too slow
to be useful. I haven't tried Imagine to see how fast it speeds that up
but it seems to move along quite nicely. 
     What's more interesting is what it doesn't speed up: ED is still
brutally slow, Falcon (in the ads it says it'll speed it up) is the same
as always, and multitasking is pretty much the same. Essentially, the
FPU speeds things up but I guess I need the 32 bit Ram before I see
anything else speed up.
     By the way, can anyone explain to me exactly what the MMU on a
68030 is for?