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MultiFunction Module

    27-Aug-90 17:46:33
Sb: MultiFunction Module
Fm: Kevin Ushko 73567,507
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Does anyone use Microbotics MultiFunction Module? From what I've seen it fits into their Starboard 2 memory board and gives access to a MC68881. Can this be used to speed up things like rendering times in products like Turbo Silver? An article in the August Amazing Computing shows that using this board generates "benchmarks" that are 8 – 10 times times faster than the normal libraries. I figure it would be a cheap (compared to an A2630) way to increase rendering speeds and such. Not quite as fast as a full accelerator, but faster than the normal Amiga, for the math at least. I know that access to memory will still be slower than the 2630.