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- From: ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Upgrading the ST or TT ...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.100013.28213@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 10:00:13 GMT
- References: <l6u6oiINNcod@aludra.usc.edu>
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- In article <l6u6oiINNcod@aludra.usc.edu> baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
- [Stuff deleted]
- >
- > Assuming you make a small logic board to enable pin compatibility,
- >can the '030 in the TT be replaced with the '040 without much of a major
- >hassle (ie: is it more complicated than stealing the signals from the '030
- >(and disabling it) and routing them to the '040?) As far as I know, the
- >only major difference (hardware wise) is the larger cache and the bus-snooping
- >logic (which wont make much of a difference if you don't plan on putting
- >more than one '040 in it - Hmmm maybe two...:). Can anyone think of a good
- >reason for shooting this down? Or should we all be getting out our bread
- >boards (ha! more like etched boards:) and turbocharging our TTs?
-
- The main problem is that the bus handshaking has totally changed with teh
- '040. On the 680[0123]0 the CPU has the bus by defaults and gives it up to
- peripherals. On the 68040 the bus is "free" by default and is only acquired
- by the CPU when necessary.
-
- The other problem on course would be adding the '040 FP software to the
- system :-) and hoping that TOS initialises the PMMU in the chip in the
- correct way (the '040 only has a sub-set of the instructions for this that
- the '030 has).
-
- >
- > Food for thought...
- >
- >-Mike
-
-
- Steve
-
- If you want to know more get the Motorola 680x0 reference manual.
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