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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UNIX vs. Amiga speeds
Message-ID: <6490@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 17:15:20 GMT
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in article <0912.AA0912@julie>, mcr@julie.UUCP (Michael Richardson) says:
> Subject:

>   Out of curiosity, why weren't the 500 and 2000 just released
> with 68010s? I am pretty sure that even the 1000 could have been
> released with one, and given that it is possible to just
> drop one in, all that would have been required was a software
> change (easy in the 1000 days.)

No software change would be necessary.  

>   My only explanation would involve cost/benefit. It just wasn't worth the
> added expense...

That's certainly a part of it.  At least when the A1000 went out, I recall
68010s went for about $50.00, vs. $5.00 for the 68000.  Also, there'd probably
be a problem getting enough -- the 68010 isn't second sourced, far as I know,
and Motorola never did a huge business in 68010's, since they were followed up
pretty closely by the 68020.  The only machines I've even seen that come 
standard with 68010 are the Sun 2 and the host machine for the Tektronics
DAS analyzer I use in the lab.  Apollo used a bitslice emulation of one in
some of their machines, but none of these applications approach the high 
volumes of the 68000.  Plus, without some form of address translation (eg, 
an MMU, even a simple one like in the Sun 2), the capability to continue
instructions on a bus error doesn't have all that much use. 

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