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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Motorola's 68060 for the Mac
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 17:53:42 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.o6gh64@erics.infoserv.com>
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- cvadsgvo@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
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- > somewhere i read the top man of motorola said they are
- > regret that they didn't name the 68030 as 68040, because people generally think
- > 68030 is like 386 and 68040 is like 486, actually 68030 is competitive to
- > 486.(actually, they should name 68000 as 68020 since it is competitive on every
- > erea to 286).
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- The 68000 contains no MMU, nor is it possible to implement virtual memory
- with the 68000 - there are some instructions that could not be restarted
- following a page fault.
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