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#SupraTurbo 28?

    03-Mar-93 20:00:37
Sb: #90899-#SupraTurbo 28?
Fm: R. Simonsen/MicroBotics 75300,3665
To: Paul Wright 74135,1044
I know a little about it and some questions you should ask [Keep in mind I'm a competitor– I make the VXL30 they do the somewhat slanted comparison to in the ad] It's a ram-less, fast 68000 and as far as I know it is non-expandable. So how does one get additional memory or harddisk on the bus? I doubt you could safely *interpose* a device between the Supra and the Amiga. Thus youve closed off your Amiga to further expansion. I haven't been able to get my hands on one to check out their specific benchmark comparisons but if you run non-32-bit/non-fpu code on an 030 system you can make it look slower than it really is. It looks like they avoided using VXL's fpu. Plus they quoted an older higher price for our board. Nonetheless, an upclocked 68000 will always be cheaper than an 030. I suppose it depends on what your budget is and how much actual speed you want and whether or not you plan on expanding your system any beyond the accelerator. If anyone from Supra is about, I'm sure they'll chime in with their viewpoint on all these issues. –Redmond