Re: The Motorola 68030

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From: Eric Olson
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1986 16:36

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In article <1165@hoptoad.uucp> farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:

>Mac OS dies on anything higher than
>a 68000...

This isn't true.  The Prodigy 4, a Mac running a 16 MHz 68020 w/68881 FPC
works just fine.  Some things want to run with the cache off (because they
contain self-modifying code).  I'm not sure whether the 128K Mac ROMs are
a requirement for this, but, most definitely, the Mac WILL RUN ON A 68020.

-Eric

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From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson)
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Subject: Re: The Motorola 68030
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 12:36:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  2 12:36:01 1986
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