#68020 Upgrade.
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Greetings,
I am interested in buying the CSA 68020/68881 External board and am
trying to get in contact with any or all people who have it or have worked with
it.
I need to know things like:
How fast is the systems?
How Software/Hardware compatible is it?
Did you use the internal (7Mhz) or external (14Mhz) board?
Anything I should watch out for?
Thanks. Any comments are welcome.
Todd Weiss
Triangle Business Systems
I had one for a while. Unless you are mainly concerned with speeding up
floating point, DONT get it without the 32 bit wide fast ram. I had one w/o it,
and running flight simulator (very integer arithmetic intensive), with the
cache enabled, only got a 2% speedup. This was with one of the old 14mhz
internal boards.
As an aside, has anyone out there run FS on a 68020 machine with the 32 bit
RAM? How much smoother did the graphics look? I made sure that it would work
with one.
2% Speedup!!! Jeez. Well, I ain't gonna spend $1500 for 2 lousy percent! They
sell a 512K static board (I assume it's 32 bits wide) but it costs another
$1500 bucks and I ain't gonna spend $1500 bucks for 512K!!!
Oh well, CSA claims a 1000% speedup. Somehow, somethings gotta be going on
here.
Any more is appreciated.
Thanks again.
Todd Weiss
Triangle Business Systems