omo@mcnc.org (Julie E. Omohundro) (08/17/90)
I talked with Dove about their Marathon for the Plus, just a few weeks ago. They say it is *not* a "true" accelerator and make no promises concerning speed improvements. They talked in terms of *possible* improvements of 10%-40%, I think, which is definitely not worth the money. They also said that the amount of improvement was application dependent. But, basically, even if you got lucky and got maximal improvement with your particular application, it wouldn't match would you would get for the dollar with other "true" accelerators. Finally, they also said that they have a "true" accelerator for the Plus in the works, probably out sometime this fall or winter.
ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) (08/21/90)
According to Dove, the purpose of this is not to improve speed. It is to give you a 68030 so you can do things like virtual memory. In fact, they are going to be bundling Virtual with it soon (maybe they have already started). Tim Smith