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From: markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer)
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Subject: Fusion-40, the 68040 Card for A2000 avail...
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Date: 20 Jun 91 11:48:37 GMT
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In the german Amiga-Mag 'Amiga' (M&T) released these days (7/91) we can read
the following, very interesting article:

[translated and shorted copie]
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The US-Company RCS offers the 68040 Card 'Fusion-40' since "now".
With more than 18 Mips, that means upto 3 times faster than any A3000 and
upto 5 times faster than any (plain) A2000, this Amiga can be used for 
all professional use. 

[useless information belonging 040 deleted]

The Processor is working internally with a Tact-Rate of 50 Mhz, though the
external Rate will be 25 MHz.

The card supports upto 32 MB RAM .

[SIMMs, not mentioned in the text, but shown on the picture, and 8 MB 
onboard, the rest via Piggy-Back, also guessed, because there were only 8 SIMM-
sockets.] 

The price: 6000 DM including the Chip and 4 MB RAM.

===

As the price is EXACTLY 6000 DM, I suppose it is not yet fixed.
BTW, the US-Dollar is now : 1.80 DM = 1$US
The given 18 Mips is a bit slow, but as it is a CARD for the A2000 it may be
right. Also it is not mentioned whether the card can be plug into the 
Processor-Slot or in a Zorro-II(I) Slot, so i can't say if this card will run on
a A3000.

[to be noticed: I have nothing to do with RCS nor with ADC (The German 
Distributor), I am just coping this article to the public.]
-- 
CU, Markus

Markus Illenseer, Computer Science , University of Bielefeld, Germany
I read the news today, oh boys ... about a lucky man who made the grade ...
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