Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.misc:4680 comp.unix.amiga:1002 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: X-Pert: "50 MHz 68040 card available" Message-ID: <1991Jun18.040356.15179@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 18 Jun 91 04:03:56 GMT References: <22477@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Distribution: comp Organization: Columbia University Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu In article vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes: >In article <22477@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: > In article vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes: > >I just got off the phone with X-Pert Computer Services in Germany, and > >to my surprise they said they have a 50 MHz 68040 card available now. > > They're lying to you. > >That was what I thought. So I asked him two more times right then. >I also said that I was going to write to the net about and he >still persisted. Maybe they'll learn as they lose customer confidence? > On the other hand, these are the same folks who sold 50MHz GVP '030 >accelerators before GVP did... Accelerating a board is of course a >little bit different from accelerating a chip. :-) > I still don't understand: isn't it POSSIBLE that they are simply replacing the crystal and using a heat sink? The success rate could be >0. -- Ethan "...Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog, an animal so stupid that it had been sacked from one of Will's own commercials for being incapable of knowing which dog food it was supposed to prefer, despite the fact that the meat in all the other bowls had engine oil poured all over it."