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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Virtual Memory, MaraThon 030
Message-ID: <7253@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 89 05:08:16 GMT
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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All this talk about Virtual has gotten me interested.  In a recent message
someone suggested that instead of adding the 68020 + 68851 version of
virtual one could, for approximately the same price, get a Dove MaraThon 030
accelerator and the 68030 version of Virtual.

Now a few questions:
1.  Is the MaraThon 030 + 030 version of Virtual compatible?

2.  What's the "best" version of the MaraThon?  They come in 20Mhz, 25Mhz,
	and 30 Mhz versions.  Apparently, they use the motherboard memory
	w/o a fast on-board cache memory, so the NuBus 10Mhz clock rate is
	a big limitation.  In particular, has anyone run any standard
	benchmark programs (e.g. dhrystone). [Given the NuBus, is the 20Mhz
	version  at all faster than the Mac II's 020?]

3.  What's the phone number of the company selling Virtual?

Christopher Chow
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