Absurdly Obtuse skrev:
>...if anyone will know, it will be one of you.
>Using one of the accelerator boards as a template, would it be too
>difficult to design a 68060 accelerator board for a 68040 NeXT? I guess a
>big part of this question is: how different is the architecture of the
>68060 to that of the 68040?
The 68060 has lost some instructions present in the 68040, so theuy aren't all
that similar. You'd have to add an emulation library for the lost
instructions, and perhaps a compiler back-end if you want to compile programs
to run as fast as possible. OTOH, this may be adapted from GNU sources.
Then there's the matter of 68060 running at different voltages, but that's no
software matter.
But if we ignore the fact that designing a 68060 isn't something you usually
do in wire-wrap, a lot of software will crash due to unimplemented
instructions.
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Received on Wed Aug 29 2001 - 21:18:36 BST