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From: aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sri-Man)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Computer Architecture question -- Daye Haynie
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Date: 10 May 91 02:03:20 GMT
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In article <y_4G=zw&1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>Can you just drop a 68040 into any computer and expect it to be as
>fast as a computer designed around the 68040?  Now, can you just drop
>an 88K processor in a computer that is based on the 68K and expect it
>to work at all?

You don't need to be a Daye Haynie to answer this question. :-) 

Of course not!  If you stick a 040 on the first Mac it isn't going to be
that great of a boost.  You might as well just add a math coprocessor or 
something.

If you are trying to say that the Amiga3000 was not designed for a 040 in mind.
I think most of the people on here will tell you wrong.  Correct me if I am
wrong, but the Amiga3000 was built with the 040 in mind.  Why do you think the
accelerator cards with 040's in them are so cheap???

	Sri