second thoughts on buying a 3000UX

[Thomas Cleland]

>In article <61751 at masscomp.westford.ccur.com>, rtc at westford.ccur.com (Robert Chesler) writes:
>> What's the deal with getting a 50Mhz CPU clock speed?  What's the deal with 
>> getting a 68040 CPU?  Are they really available?  How much more cost? 
>
>The _deal_ is that _currently_ there are no 68040 boards available 
>for the A3000, nor a 68030 replacement.  I don't recall Commodore 
>promising one.
>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> --Robert
>
 The current 68040 situation to the best of my knowledge is
third-party.  Three boards "exist":  I have heard of the GVP
board, seen the Supra 040 board in its little box, and seen the
Progressive Peripheral's 040DC board running at blazemonger
speeds.  (bonus:  the 040DC employs real-time storage data
compression).  

I've seen none of these on any dealers' shelves.  The PP 040DC
board listed at about $1200, or $950 or so without the data
compression part.