Xref: utzoo alt.sources.amiga:101 comp.sys.amiga:63489 comp.sys.amiga.tech:13898 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!ceej From: ceej@pawl.rpi.edu (Chris J Hillery) Newsgroups: alt.sources.amiga,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: replacing the 68000 by a 68070 - is it possible Keywords: 68070 68010 processor replacement Message-ID: Date: 12 Aug 90 05:27:45 GMT References: <453@krabat.marco.UUCP> <15802@s.ms.uky.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 18 phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) writes: >In article ceej@pawl.rpi.edu (Chris J Hillery) writes: >>In terms of other 680x0 series chips, other that the 68010 I don't think it's >>possible to simply (or even complexly) replace the 68000 with one; there's >>enough soft and hardware differences to make this impossible > Ah, no. I'm sitting typing on a 68010-eqipped Amiga 500. The 68010 >is pin compatible with the 68000; it's a direct swap. As for incompatiblity; >yes, only as far as the 68020 is also incompatible. Programmes that will >run on a 68020 will run on a 68010. That's what I said; or, rather, I said the 68010 can be used to replace the 68000. As to incompatibility, well, you probably know better than I; I do know that some software just won't run with the 68010 that will with the 68000, and from all I hear the list of incompatibilities gets larger the "higher" you go, with a pretty big jump to the 68020. > - R'ykandar.