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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CMI 68000 (68010?) 2x questions
Message-ID: <1212@agora.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 88 03:54:51 GMT
References: <9346@watdragon.waterloo.edu:
Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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From article <9346@watdragon.waterloo.edu:, by drjerrard@trillium.waterloo.edu (Darren Jerrard):
: In article <390@ga.ecn.purdue.edu: rodmar@ga.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Rodney L Martin) writes:
: 
: I too was interested in purchasing the CMI accellerator.
: However, I came across what seems to be a very annoying bug
: when the accelerator is bumped up to 14MHz.
: 
: When I type to the CLI (~50wpm), the Amiga gets confused and begins
: to repeat my keystrokes (usually between 10 and 30 times!).
:
	You've run into the infamous Cherry Keyboard bug. With the old
style Cherry keyboards you just can't run the ROMs (and the associated
keyboard read routines) at 14MHz. The solution is to remove the 'J1'
jumper on your Processor Accelerator. This allows the ROM accesses to
be handled at 7MHz at all times, rather than running them at 14 when
the processor is running at 14.

: 
: Also, when activating various CLI's the output gets redirected to 
: the newly activated one.
: 
	Do you mean while the keyboard is in BOZO mode? (BOZO mode is
a technical term for the problem you were having...) :) That would not
be suprising, since the keyboard is still spitting out all those characters.
If you mean something else, let me know exactly what's happening. I haven't
seen any CLI redirection problems at any speed...
:
: This is the only problem that I saw with the accelerator.
: It worked fine at 7MHz.  The system I was using was a 
: 3meg 2000, w/bridgecard, hard drive.  
: 
: I'm still looking for a good accelerator (with 68881 would be nice).
: Any suggestions will be appreciated.
: 
	You might try the Processor Accelerator... Again. It works very
nicely on almost any machine.
: 
:           drjerrard@trillium.waterloo.edu
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