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From: anakin@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Anakin Research)
Date: Thu, 17-Nov-88 14:10:28 EST
Message-ID: <1988Nov17.141028.16337@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lucas board
References: <6053@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <1988Nov12.235643.5124@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <6125@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: anakin@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Anakin Research)
Keywords: Lucas 68020 68881

The Lucas Board works with a 2000 but the form factor makes it impossible
to put the 2000 back together again. There are two people out there
who are trying to use an adaptor link to make it fit. If they are 
successful I'll post a message. There also are two other people who have
taken my PCAD files and are trying to lau out a board for the 2000. Again
if they achieve any success I'm sure you'll hear about it.
I have been asked many times why I developed the board only for the 1000.
Firstly, that is the Amiga I have, and I do alot of animation and rendering.
Having owned many orphaned machines I am just trying to breathe some more
life into the ol' 1000. I believe the 1000 is the hacker's machine, and
hackers are chronically broke. The 2000 is being fed by the market and I'm
sure over the next year many 020 and 030 boards will become available. I have
no wish to compete with these products as I'm sure they will likely be far
more expandable and compatible than the Lucas board. I simply wanted the 020
and 881 with a couple of megs of 32-bit wide ram available for my renderings
on the 1000. I felt that there were probably many out there with 1000's with
the same needs so I made the project available as cheap as I could. The main
reason for the async design was to make the chip sets which are available
at 12 Meg. (relatively cheap) useable, as well as 20 meg parts if you can
afford (read beg, borrow, or steal)useable as well.

			Brad Fowles  anakin@utgpu