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- From: sagge@ts.umu.se (Mattias Sandgren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What's this ColdFire thingy, then ?
- Date: 10 Feb 1996 18:52:44 GMT
- Organization: University of Umea, Sweden
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- On 07-Feb-96 09:18:28, Andrew George Elia wrote:
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- >errrm. Call me "out of touch", but the latest transcript of the Software
- >Evening '95 in which Petro T. (OK, OK, I can't spell it -happy ?) announced
- >the A1300 mentions that it will have either the 68040, or the ColdFire
- >processor. What exactly IS the ColdFire processor ? Undoubtedly it's a
- >strange name for a 68000-series processor (somehow I don't think that it's a
- >604 -would be nice if it was a 614, though!). Thanks!
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- It's a cut down version of the 68040 and has been used
- mostly for embedded products I think.
- I'd like to know how AT is going to implement the ColdFire
- since from what I know, it's not very compatible with the
- rest of the 680x0's since it lacks some instructions. Oh
- well, it's faster..
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- Mattias Sandgren (sagge@ts.umu.se)
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