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From: robt@molihp.UUCP (Robert L Thurlow)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Question on processor expansion
Message-ID: <177@molihp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 11:19:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 27 11:19:55 1986
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In article <297@ubc-cs.UUCP> manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vince Manis) writes:
>I fail to see the attraction of the 68010.

Just a little nicer, and several friends have them from those Motorola kits.
Some things would be a squeak faster, though I doubt I'd *desolder* the 68000
in my 520ST to use it.

>I'm dubious about a $530 CDN price for the 68020, though: the July issue of
>BYTE has an article on the Definicon 68020 co-processor board for the IBM
>PC. Including 1MB of memory, a 68020, and a 68881 (FPU), the price they list
>is US$995. That would cause me to guess that (in reasonable quantities) you
>can get a 68020 for ~ $150 US.

$530 CDN it is - single quantity from L. A. Varah, as of 86/06/25.  Shouldn't
stay that way for long though, I agree.

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