13 Aug
2006
13 Aug
'06
10:59 p.m.
On 8/8/06, Bryan Pope <bpope at wordstock.com> wrote:
I remember the 68010 was all the rage for Amiga owners
when it came out..
All you had to do was replace your 68000 and BAM! you got almost close
to a 10% speed increase... :)
More like 5%, but not bad for a (at the time) $20 chip. All you had
to worry about was badly written software that tried to do its own
MOVECC instructions instead of calling the OS (the Calculator app with
AmigaDOS 1.1 was the classic test app). Of course, you could install
a trap handler to "do the right thing", but an unpatched machine would
Guru if your user-mode app tried to execute that instruction.
Still a fun chip, and it did fix instruction restart issues related to
trying to implement true virtual memory.
-ethan