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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Turbo C, 68020 German board
Message-ID: <2033@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 89 18:52:43 GMT
References: <8901210142.AA17772@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <8901210142.AA17772@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> #FJMORA@WMMVS.BITNET writes:
>2) A 68020-68881 board was reviewed. It is expansive but fast.
>The installation requires a trained dealer and some faith in Lady Luck.
>CPU intensive operations show a 20fold speed increase. Please German
>STers, confirm it, somebody borrewed those issues and I just can't
>remember the exact figures, price, compatibility.


There are 3 such boards around here.

As far as I know, they arn't wort the money (020/881; new housing for
ST...) when run with the patched TOS (you know, TOS won't run with the
020, cause Atari used the Line-F opcodes for some system primitives).
Extra speed is about ten to twenty per cent...

Run under RTOS (an multitasking realtime system designed to support the
PEARL languane), it can speed up processing of floating point by up to
500 per cent.


hase
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