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From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
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Subject: Re: how about an upgrade to 68010
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.170632.10869@uvm.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 91 17:06:32 GMT
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From article <1991Jan13.180628.2676@waikato.ac.nz>, by atc@waikato.ac.nz:

> Why not just take out the 68000 and put in a 68010, most software should run
> and should run about 10% faster.
> People do this to thier amigas,but they have a piece of pd software that gets
> over some minor incompatability problems.
> P.S. Its a very cheap upgrade too.
> Not sure if this will work but it should
 
> Andrew Chambers
> Computer Consultant
> University Of Waikato
> New Zealand

Nope, won't work.  As I understand it, the stackframe size is
different and corners were cut in TOS.  The line F stuff may interfere
with things too - don' t know enough about '010's to tell.  In general,
if you want to run a 680X0 where X>0, you need a fixed version of TOS,
either a german patched eprom version or TOS 1.62 from Atari.  Also, 
remember that the 68000s are soldered into Atari STs.

Bob Pegram

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