gillham@susan.cs.andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) (05/11/91)
Hi! I'm curious if the CSA 68020 accelerators for the A500(plugs into 68000 slot) would work with something other than an Amiga? How specific to the Amiga design are they? If it's at all possible I would like to put one in a AT&T Unix-PC or a Sun-2. In my opinion if the works as a drop in replacement for the Amiga 500's 68000, it should work in *ANY* 68000[010]. I realize that the operating system would have to know about it, but I'm curious about the technical feasibility. (or whether anyone has done this) Thanks!! -Andrew -- =========================================================================== Andrew Gillham "High Ideals are weighed down by Andrews University the Anchors of Reality" (gillham@andrews.edu) - myself
mmm@reaper.Chi.IL.US (Michael Marvin Morrison) (05/15/91)
In article <673978829wkn11371@susan.cs.andrews.edu> gillham@susan.cs.andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) writes: > >Hi! I'm curious if the CSA 68020 accelerators for the A500(plugs into >68000 slot) would work with something other than an Amiga? >How specific to the Amiga design are they? > >If it's at all possible I would like to put one in a AT&T Unix-PC or a >Sun-2. > >In my opinion if the works as a drop in replacement for the >Amiga 500's 68000, it should work in *ANY* 68000[010]. >I realize that the operating system would have to know about it, but >I'm curious about the technical feasibility. >(or whether anyone has done this) > >Thanks!! > >Andrew Gillham "High Ideals are weighed down by Actually the design for the Amiga version came from a design CSA had formerly made for Motorola to speed up old 68000 VME products. According to Steve Riker (of CSA) the Amiga was the only 68000 based PC they could basically drop their design into (almost verbatim). Macs and Atari's both crashed (due to the way their OS was written I believe) I seem to remember they even tried it in a Sega Genesis and it bombed. You should give them a call, I posted the number earlier. -- Michael M Morrison /| |\ mmm@reaper.chi.il.us <or> | | Cash, for Cache.. | | reaper!mmm@miroc.chi.il.us \| Hmm.. sounds fair. |/