8 Jan
2007
8 Jan
'07
2:17 a.m.
Teo Zenios wrote:
From what I understand, Motorola made the line simpler and simpler as
time went on. I think they did it so that they could get the clock
speeds up.
Peace... Sridhar
Earlier
revisions of ColdFire weren't compatible with older 68K. The
latest revisions are now compatible enough to work as replacements for
the 68060. If memory serves, the ColdFire chips that work for replacing
an '060 are latest two revisions.
I've seen a ColdFire upgrade board for the Amiga 4000. It's blazing fast.
The 68060 was quite a bit different then the 680x0 that were released before
it (they started taking things out of the hardware at that point). A 68060
will not boot Mac OS (even with the voltage adapter board used in 040 to 060
conversions for the Amiga) and from what I recall needed emulation done in
software to work correctly on the Amiga as well.