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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Was - Re: Xerox sues Apple!!! Now processor wars.
Message-ID: <355@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 89 21:24:37 GMT
References: <6767@tank.uchicago.edu> <1989Dec17.112127.27333@me.toronto.edu> <3368@rti.UUCP> <899@lzaz.ATT.COM> <1989Dec29.165724.12683@sj.ate.slb.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1989Dec29.165724.12683@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:

| I don't buy this either, the 68k family is supposed to be upward compatible, at
| least as far as the opcodes go.

  In fact, the 68000 is NOT completely compatible with the later
revisions, not even the plug-in replacement, the 68010. Witness the
"68010 patches" which are used in the Amiga world.
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