Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!pdxgate!parsely!percy!cryo!billc From: billc@cryo.rain.com (William J. Coldwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: X-Pert: "50 MHz 68040 card available" Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 08:26:26 GMT References: <1991Jun17.052118.19326@pirates.armstrong.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Cryogenic Software Lines: 18 In article <1991Jun17.052118.19326@pirates.armstrong.edu> cates504@pirates.armstrong.edu writes: >At today's exchange rate that is about $3300! Quite a bit, 3.5-4 times, >more than the 25 mhz. 040' cards Progressive Peripherals and Supra have >announced and shown. Hardly worth the difference. There simply is not >_that_ much "glue" needed to make an 040' work in an A3000, the Supra >and PP cards are very simple, almost barren looking. ;^) Supra's was simply a display item that never had the capability of working. It was just eye candy. They _should_ have something up and running by AmiExpo FLA time though. PP&S's has data compression circuitry also, so I didn't get the feeling that it was "barren" (at least not on the A3000 version) ;-). >Jim -- William J. Coldwell Amiga Attitude Adjuster Cryogenic Software 3-D Pro | Anim. Station | CA-650 CD-ROM | CMI PA/MPB | Interact AppleTalk Nexus HD/Aries | CSA 40/4 Magnum | RAMbrandt | Video Blender | DoubleTalk Internet: billc@cryo.rain.com UUCP: tektronix!percy!cryo!billc