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In article <227@eneevax.UUCP> ravi@eneevax.UUCP (Ravi Kulkarni) writes:
>I was wondering how hard it would be to replace the 68k on the
>mac with a little board that would contain a 68020,fpu and mmu
>and plug into the 68k socket. I don't think interfacing the
>68020 would be that hard since it has dynamic bus sizing. Is
>there a chip set available for the 68k series equivalent to the
>3 chip set offered by national in it's 32000 series, namely the
>demand paged mmu, and floating point unit and cpu unit? I would
>be interested in knowing some of the technical issues involved
>in trying to put this in a mac both hardware and software wise.
>One other question is how much improvement can be expected by
>just replacing the 68000 with the 68020 at the same clock rate
>and maintaining the 16 bit bus?
>

The 68020 replacement question was handled by Lon Poole in this months
Macworld. Rather than type it in, I refer you to his column...

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