Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floyd-Steinberg dither (and A2630 related questions/requests)
Keywords: Looking for a 1bit FS converter
Message-ID: <9987@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Mar 90 07:09:58 GMT
References: <8100@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <32384@auc.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <32384@auc.UUCP> rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) writes:

>Ok.  HEY COMMODORE!!!  HOW ABOUT A "A2640", 50MHz, 68040 board, that can hold
>up to 8Mb of RAM, (that you can get with 0K installed), and with a
>daughterboard expansion bus, that you can put, say, 3 boards on, for up to
>256Mb of RAM!!!

First of all, you'll probably have a long wait for 50MHz 68040s.  And if you 
wanted an A2000 Coprocessor card with an '040 on it, it could be done.  But
the amount of room extra on the thing, like for memory and all, would be
less than what you get today on an A2630.  And that only have room for 4 megs.
At least based on the same level of board technology.  And the daughterboard
connector isn't a general purpose expansion bus, it's designed for a single
memory card.  And purposely so.

>Next week would be nice, though!  :-):-):-):-):-):-):-)

Hey, I'd love one.  You'll have to convince Commodore, however.

>Also, here's an idea for some hardware company.  How about a DMA Hard Disk
>controller/Memory expansion card that connects to the A2630's daughtercard
>connection?  

Sorry, the A2630 daughtercard connector doesn't support DMA.  It is really
designed just for memory/cache memory.

>Rodney Ricks,   Morehouse College                                        \/


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