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From: raz%kilowatt@Sun.COM (Steve -Raz- Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Need information about 68010.
Keywords: 68010, 68000
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Date: 18 Jul 89 20:19:25 GMT
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In article <602@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> wdimm@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (William Dimm) writes:

>Since the person who was talking about using the 68010 said that
>he had problems when he switched to FFS, I just wanted to comment that
>the 68010 definitely does work with FFS (he didn't say that it didn't,
>but he didn't say that it did...).  I am using mine in an Amiga 1000,

Gee, I could have sworn that I said at the very end that it was the
chip that was causing me the headaches, in the form of a bad sample.
Although I have not personally run FFS with a 68010, I know that it
does work. Sorry if I mislead anyone.

>with a CLtd SCSI controller.  Version 3.0 of their SCSIdos works fine
>with a 68010, although there may have been a problem with earlier
>versions (I had some troubles, but couldn't 'definitely' blame them on
>the 68010).

I was one of CLTD's "first" 3.0 customers.  I called them at the time
I was seeing my problems and spent a lot of money getting ScsiDos 3.0
from their kansas (can you say toto?) BBS. It didn't help my problem.
I definately had a bad chip.

>Now, my question.  Am I correct in assuming that the 'C10' (or whatever
>the letter was - maybe it was 'L') at the end of the '68010' on my chip 
>means that it is 10Mhz?  Are there faster ones available?  Do you need 
>anything special to run a faster 68010, and how much do they cost?

Both of the letters sound right. I believe that it stands for the
package type, L for plastic and C for ceramic. Yes that means that it
is a 10Mhz part. Yes, you can get them as fast as 12.5Mhz. Not quite
fast enough for the CMI PA, and not an even multiple of the Ami's
clock speed, so you'd need an async design. Just not worth the effort.
I don't know what they cost or even if you can still get them, I found
the information above in an old '020 benchmark report.

I have redirected followups to c.s.a.t

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