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- From: tww2568@vms1.tamu.edu (Tom D Tek 7BvO)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 68010 in 500
- Date: 6 Jan 1996 19:38 CST
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- In article <AD10AC4A966823E9@fc-16.ppp.frii.com>, goaway@frii.com (Steve Schmidt) writes...
- >I read somewhere that people were installing 68010's into A500's. The post
- >said they are pin for pin compatable. The A500 was just turned on and it
- >worked fine, only much faster.
-
- Where have you been? People have been doing this since '87...
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- >
- >Is this true?
- >
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- Yes.. well... some of it... it does not make the machine 'MUCH FASTER'
- as you stated...
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- I did some of the first real benchmarking back in the 80's and found that
- the boot in speed was between 4-10%.... the mean was rigth around 6%
- over all...
-
- i.e. You would need to use a long processor hungry task and a stop watch to
- notice the diff... In short.. it is not worth it.
-
-
- >I looked for it in an FAQ but was unable to find it.
-
-
- Prob because no one is interested in it any longer....its claims of grandure
- were found to be rather empty...
-
- No Phase 5 got the right idea when THEY came out with the BLIZZARD BOARD!
- That was a 14MHz processor daughter board that cached the commands at 14MHz
- and had its own RAM! That was a nice little unit and much better performance
- could be realized (for the money)....
-
- >
- >Thanks in advance,
- >Steve
-
- L8ER..
-
-
- Tom D Tek 7Bu)
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