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Offline Fransexy_

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Re: I would/wouldn't like a production run of 060's
« on: August 18, 2013, 05:52:35 PM »
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Hi,
Is there enough desire for kickstarter funded production run of 060's. If so would they have to be faster than 50mhz? Or is 50mhz enough?

As an alternative should we try and get a run of 50mhz 030's?

I would settle for a 50mhz 060 model with working FPU. I could afford to pay $200 for one (CPU only) plus some more for kickstarter.

Are there general purpose fabs that can do a run of 1,000-2,000 chips?

Otherwise I'll settle for the less expensive FPGA route.


We could dream but a realistic production run should be 80--133 mhz with fpu and mmu. These chips could be made without redesign the chip.
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Re: I would/wouldn't like a production run of 060's
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2013, 11:22:29 AM »
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I think it's less likely to happen than freescale producing 060's again.
 
As FPGA's get more powerful the benefit of shoehorning one into an old Amiga as just a processor upgrade makes less and less sense. Someone could make a motherboard that fitted an old Amiga case, but even that has disadvantages.


Where have you been the last months? in a cave?

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