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From: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: a 68010 for your st?
Message-ID: <682@viper.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 19:30:41 EST
Article-I.D.: viper.682
Posted: Mon Mar 16 19:30:41 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Mar-87 05:39:48 EST
References: <8703062012.AA22292@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <574@tc-fletch.tc.fluke.COM>
Reply-To: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
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In article <574@tc-fletch.tc.fluke.COM> fletch@tc.fluke.COM (Fletcher Holmquist) writes:
 >
 >When I have the ability to make cartridges, I plan on making a cartridge to
 >allow TOS to run on the 68010.  The vector base register will allow all
 >exceptions to be intercepted, even if apps redefine the vectors.
 >

Good luck.  I'm looking forward to hearing more about your plans for this..

 >.......  I am disappointed that the code in ROM was not written in a way to
 >be compatible with the 68010 chip.  Apparenty the Amiga OS was.
 >

I've been discussing this with a small group of Amiga users.  They are having
the same problems upgrading to 68010's as we are.  Aparently there
is either an alternate "kick-start" disk for use with 68010 Amigas and/or
there are some people experimenting with a method of detecting the different
CPU's and booting the correct Amiga os based on what's in the machine.

  Either way, it means they have two different operating systems for the
different cpus.  This is a major problem all users wanting to upgrade are
going to have to face regardless of the machine (ST or Amiga) they're using.

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John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems
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