7 Aug
2006
7 Aug
'06
12:39 p.m.
From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at
verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:14:15 -0400
On Monday 07 August 2006 02:58 pm, Bryan Pope wrote:
Yes, it's been a while for me too, but AFAIR both the 68000 and 68010
can be obtained at higher speed ratings. My StarShip had a self-developed
68000 board, and I upgraded it to a 68010. Hardware-wise that is simple,
as they are pin-compatible. Software-wise it depends what you are doing.
In my case, I had a tiny operating system to schedule tasks, a time-wait
queue, etc., it was trickier, because the *stack frame* that a 68000 and a
68010 push onto the hardware stack when an exception occurs is *different*.
My OS used exceptions to return from user to supervisor mode (which is BTW
the only method).
But the 68010 was a little faster, especial in tiny (3 instruction IIRC)
loops,
which where "cached".
I am not sure there where much extra fancy instructions as as soon after
that upgrade got a 68020 (at 30 MHz) running, and that one had a few
instructions that I really missed on the 68000.
Yes, I am a "Moto-man", not an "Intel-chap" :-)
- Henk, PA8PDP.
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Tellason
out..
Wasn't the 68010 supposed to fix this? I
have one of those, too...
I remember the 68010 was all the rage for Amiga owners when it came All you had to do was replace your 68000 and BAM!
you got almost close
to a 10% speed increase... :)
Well, that one is a 10 MHz part while the 68000 I have is I think an 8 MHz
part, which is a bigger increase than that, but the clock driving the
thing
would need to be changed too, and I don't think they have exactly the same
pinout, though it's been a really long time since I looked at that
material.