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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: New 68k? 68025? (16-bit version of 040)
Message-ID: <11424@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 8 May 90 03:32:22 GMT
References: <111512@psuecl.bitnet> <213@demott.COM>
Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <213@demott.COM> kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>>Seriously, could this mean what I think to the Amiga 500 and 2000 owners?
>>I presume the 4x speed increase you suggest is based on a reduction of
>>clock cycles/instruction and would thus work fine in a stock Amiga...?
>
>    Not quite that easy, unfortunately.  The interrupt stack frames are
>different, so you'll need to path the OS.

The Amiga operating system already automatically finds out which processor
it is running on, and acts accordingly. We already have support for '010
'020 and '030 stack frames, and there are several of us here at Commodore
that can make the necessary modification to the OS to handle new exception
stack frames within *minutes*. It's quite a trivial task.

Valentin
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