Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!altitude!menzies From: menzies@CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Fusion-40, the 68040 Card for A2000 avail... Message-ID: <1991Jun21.183207.27427@CAM.ORG> Date: 21 Jun 91 18:32:07 GMT References: <1991Jun20.114837.22962@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de> Organization: Altitude.CAM.ORG, St-Lambert QC CANADA Lines: 81 markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer) writes: >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] >=== >The US-Company RCS offers the 68040 Card 'Fusion-40' since "now". ^^^^^^^^^^^ No, it's a Canadian Company located in Montreal,Quebec. >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.] No, it's ALL onboard. The board itself supports: 1meg x 8 simm modules expandable upto 8megs or, 4meg x 8 simm modules expandable upto 32megs. The minimum is 4megs. I believe there are permutations on the above but I would have to double check. >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. The RCS board fits into the A2000 processor slot. The board runs at 1750 Drystones/mip using Amiga Bench Drystone Rating. This translates to 31650 Drystones/sec. Users can expect a much better rating once popular softwares are optimized for the 040. The board has been running under the 2.0 OS and I might add, the present software runs even more reliably than under 1.3. For one, the Copyback caches can remain on ALL the time. The 2.0 OS seems to have been developed with the 040 in mind. >[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 ... >------------------------------------------------------------------------- While I am NOT an employee of RCS, I have been independently testing the Fusion_40 for 2 weeks now, in particular , with 3D Animation software. If anyone requires info on how well a particular software (if I have it) performs with the Fusion_40 (modelling and rendering speed comparisons against my own A3000/25) , feel free to ask here (I read these groups on a regular basis) or if not of general interest, by E-Mail. I've preformed numerous tests (some quite large) with Imagine1.1.... have now started with Caligari Broadcast 2.01...and will soon be looking at Lightwave.....others to follow. To some extent I've tested ADPro, DPIII, and several PD's that I use constantly like Snap1.61 and Browser1.7 (ok). RCS Management should be connected to the Net within the next 2 weeks, hopefully sooner. In the meantime, I am willing to relay questions of a technical nature or product availibility etc, to them. --steve -- Stephen Menzies Email: menzies@CAM.ORG