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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68020 Upgrades & Macintosh (some Comments)
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Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 19:39:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  8 19:39:20 1986
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In article <10199@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis) writes:
>
> Of course the new Apple won't be able to run existing software
> because the Apple O/S can't handle the '020s architecture but I
> am sure every one will offer to trade money for upgrades.

The roms in the Mac+ can deal with a 68020, I believe.  Levco
sells a Mac 68020 + floating point + 4 meg ram + internal hard disk
upgrade right now, and the only major piece of software that has any
trouble with it is MacWrite.  The bozos who wrote MacWrite decided
to use trap instructions ( rather than subroutine calls ) for some
things, thus depending on knowing what a stack frame looked like!
-- 
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