Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!ames!elroy!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!ucla-cs!michael From: michael@maui.cs.ucla.edu (michael gersten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: UNIX vs. Amiga speeds Message-ID: <22977@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 14 Apr 89 02:16:33 GMT References: <0912.AA0912@julie> <6490@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: michael@cs.ucla.edu (michael gersten) Distribution: na Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 13 In article <6490@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: :In article <0912.AA0912@julie>, mcr@julie.UUCP (Michael Richardson) says: : :> Out of curiosity, why weren't the 500 and 2000 just released :> with 68010s? : :No software change would be necessary. Wrong. The 68010 has one instruction privleged that was not privledged on the 68000. This kills early versions of Lattice's math library, and some games. Michael