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Clearing up acronyms
« on: April 26, 2006, 03:02:20 AM »
When it comes to amiga I hear lots of acronyms. For instance, I was looking at an accelerator card which included the letters FPU - now, I have heard of CPU, GPU, PPU etc etc... but not FPU

What is (an) FPU? And, does it come with an accelerator card (where I am right in saying the A Card also potentially includes memory as well as increased Proc' speed)
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Re: Clearing up acronyms
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2006, 03:22:48 AM »
ok. so i have a standard A1200 (with the HDD however) with a 68k20 - on my mobo do i have a FPU now?
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Re: Clearing up acronyms
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2006, 09:12:50 AM »
-so these accelerator cards: they include more memory (even have spaces to add more memory)?.

-they can (or DO) include an FPU?
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Re: Clearing up acronyms
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2006, 04:01:33 PM »
so its possible to get an Accelerator card with:

1. A Memory Upgrade?

2. A CPU Upgrade?

3. An FPU Upgrage

4. If this is true, what happens to the CURRENT CPU in the MB?

5. The memory on the Accelerator card is now Grphics mem in WB?
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Re: Clearing up acronyms
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2006, 12:26:32 AM »
i think Durons have a cache which goes down to 64Kb
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Re: Clearing up acronyms
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2006, 05:53:41 PM »
.lha (files)

is this an Amiga program compressed file?
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Re: Clearing up acronyms
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2006, 05:59:41 PM »
is there a dloadable program FOR the amiga which will uncompress these files (on the amiga) for me?
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Re: Clearing up acronyms
« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2006, 12:57:03 AM »
DiskMaster seems only to deal with LHA i need LZX ... ?

any program for that?
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