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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68010 W/1.5MEG INTERNAL - WILL IT WORK?
Message-ID: <340@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Dec-86 23:22:39 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 20 23:22:39 1986
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Summary: 68010, yes.  1.5meg internal, maybe.


Hi,

Yes, the 68010 will work with Workbnech 1.1 and 1.2 software 95% or
greater of the time.  It seems like most of the commercial writers
have avoided things to work differently a-la 68010.

Don't expect amazing things to happen when you throw in (or buy it
with it already thrown .. er.. plugged in) a 68010.  In my case, I
saw about a 10 to 15% gain in speed (yawn).  Of course, that is
what I expected.

Alas, there is one thing that I know for sure does break when you
have a 68010-- Transformer to name names.  We all know that
transformer is s-l-o-w, but I do have times when it is useful since
I don't have a pee-cee at home, so I ditched my 68010 until the
(hopefully affordable) sidecar shows up around here.

As far as the 1.5 meg internal memory goes, it may or may not be
useful.  I'll bet that it doesn't follow the "Zoro" standard, and
thus will require a special driver in order to be recognized by the
operating system.  Make sure you ask them if the memory can
autoconfigure, and if it can't if they provide the necessary
software to make it useful to the operating system.

That aside, the price you mention seems at least reasonable.

  --Bill

Bill Mayhew
Division of Basic Medical Sciences
Northeastern Ohio Universities' College of Medicine
Rootstown, OH  44272  USA    phone:  216-325-2511
(wtm@neoucom.UUCP    ...!cbatt!neoucom!wtm)
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