1200 accelerator NOW
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You said:
I think, if I remember correctly, that I was responding to your message
about your 1200 accelerator board. Someone had been asking about the
chance of getting an 040 or an 060 in a 1200, and you told him about your
board, which, as I understand, has an 030.
Paul
I say:
That is right 030/50 and it screams.
Larry
Adding an '040 or '060 would be very difficult. Would it not? Thermal
problems, much less the physical size of the CPU would make it impossible to
fit in the A1200. An external unit?
Regards,
John Chang
Technical Support Manager
Scala, Inc.
The 060's 3.3v design should eliminate thermal problems and make it a
great thing to put in an A1200. Probably cooler than a 50mhz 030.
Dale,
OK, duh, you got me a SECOND time! ;-}
Had no idea that the '060 is a 3.3V design. Are you sure it will fit? What
about clock/calendar, SCSI, RAM expansion, 5V to 3.3V regulator, etc.
OK, I'm waiting for the inevitable THIRD time!
Regards,
John Chang
I'm always amazed at all the junk people manage to fit in tiny A500s and
A1200s. I don't have dimensions of the '060 handy, so, no, I'm not sure
that it will fit. The other stuff probably isn't too hard, and I'd be
suprised if you couldn't cram the '060 itself in somehow.
The question is, who is going to pay $1500 for an A1200 expansion device?
No, please don't answer that, I'm not taking votes and I'm not a hardware
guy who would have any influence over whether the product would be built.
>Dale,
>
>OK, duh, you got me a SECOND time! ;-}
>
>Had no idea that the '060 is a 3.3V design. Are you sure it will fit?
>What about clock/calendar, SCSI, RAM expansion, 5V to 3.3V regulator,etc.
>
>OK, I'm waiting for the inevitable THIRD time!
The '060 HAS 5.0V design!!
You can still wait for the SECOND time:)
cu
Jochen Antesberger from Neuburg/Bavaria/Germany/Europe/Earth/Solarsystem
With ZyXEL 19200bps Power through da Lines
Are you SURE the 68060 is a 5.0V chip? I haven't actually seen the specs
from Motorola, but from everthing I have read on the nets indicated it was
a 3.3V design.
// John – (TechnoJunkie at heart)
\X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
>Are you SURE the 68060 is a 5.0V chip? I haven't actually seen the specs
>from Motorola, but from everthing I have read on the nets indicated it
>was a 3.3V design.
The german 'MC' a Computer-Magazine for PCs Macs and other Computers wrote
following:
German:
"Der jetzige Chip mit dem 68060 wird in einer 0,5 MikroMeter CMOS
Technologie gefertig, wobei die traditionellen TTL-Pegel mit 5 Volt
benutzt werden."
English:
"The actual chip with the 68060 is produced in a 0.5 micrometer CMOS
technology, the traditional TTL-level with 5 Volt is used."
Since I am not a Hardware Designer and not a translator for technical
texts it is possible that I didnt understood the text correct and/or didnt
translate the text correct. Maybe one of the other german speaking guyz in
this forum could translate the german text again.
Of course a 3.3V chip would be better, but the '060 has also some missing
features which were first implemented in the '040. And again my worse
translation: The divided supervisor-stackpointers the both T-Flags in the
Status-Register the different Floating-Point commands and other little
things are missing. The Magazine thinks it could be because of some minor
designingproblems. But all other parts of the article show that this chip
is really incredible, this CPU is REALLY FAST, and programs optimized for
the 060 are even faster!!!
cu
Jochen Antesberger from Neuburg/Bavaria/Germany/Europe
With ZyXEL 19200bps Power through da Lines(long before V.Terbo!)