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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: KS1.4 on an A1000? Yes.
Message-ID: <90050.125305UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 90 17:53:05 GMT
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In article <00013.AA00013@amnesia>, root@amnesia.UUCP (William J. Coldwell)
says:

>For those who do not have one:

>A Processor Accelerator is a 14MHz 68000 replacement that includes a battery
>backed clock/calendar, a KickStart socket, an MC6888x math ship socket and
>speeds things up (your mileage varies depending on how CPU intensive an
>application is).  Incidently, you can run the ROM at 14MHz also, so
>Intuition calls (and _ALL_ ROM routines) are accessed faster.

This may seem like a mean question, but I really don't mean it that way.
I toyed with buying a PA1000 for quite some time, but it seemed to me from
the discussion here on the net that *maybe they didn't work very well**

This is not a question of how much acceleration one got---as you say, my
milage may very.  But it seemed to me that there were an awful lot of
messages that said essentially, "I couldn't ever get the PA1000 to work, so
I finally gave up and returned it and got my money back."

So, my question for someone who ***REALLY*** knows---what's the story on
the PA1000?  Under what circumstances does it work, and when not?

lee
>"So, if this is what I want, how do I get it?" you ask.

>Well, that's fairly easy... a company called digiFeX bought out all of CMI's
>inventory, and the rights to manufacture some of their products, including
>the Processor Accelerator series.  Simply contact them, and they'll be
>happy to innundate you with the information that you need to purchase one.

>Their number is:        digiFeX - (503) 656-8818
>and they will be at AmiExpo in Washington, DC.

>They'll have to come up with something _way_ better before I'll give up my
>garage space for my keyboard....

> Bill (formerly with Creative Microsystems Inc.)


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