Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!neoucom!wtm
From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68010 Upgrade
Summary: Depends on which Amiga
Message-ID: <843@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 87 16:26:25 GMT
References: <27270R38@PSUVM>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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I had a 68010 lying around at home that I pulled off a junk board
that I got at a hamfest. Being the adventuresome type, I decided to
install it in my Amiga 1000.

Needless to say, getting the Amiga 1000 apart isn't exactly a 2
minute job.  Once I had the 68010 in, the overall speedup was about
3%.  It is possilbe to write programs with looping constructions
that do take advantage of the 68010's limited instruction caching
ability; unfortunatelty compilers don't usually generate such code.
If you do a lot of coding of your own at the assembly level, then
the'010 could be worth the effort.

I'd venture that if you have an Amiga 500 or 1000, the time
required to dig into the case and do the swap will exceed the
amount of time saved by having a faster processor for one year.
Also, some software chokes on the 68010.

If you have the Amiga 2000, getting inside is relatively painless.
I'd consider doing the swap then.  If the 68010 choked on your
software, it would be easy to put the original back in.

Me, I'm back to the plain Jane 68000 and holding out for the '030.
We'll talk then. :-).

--Bill