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Offline Matt_H

Re: Motorola 68070
« on: March 29, 2003, 12:34:00 AM »
The 070 is not what its name would imply.

To the best of my knowledge, it's less powerful than a 68000. I think it was used in the CDi. There's no benfit to building Amiga accelerators around it. They'd be decelerators.

Why Motorola continued higher numbers with a weaker chip, I have no idea.
 

Offline Matt_H

Re: Motorola 68070
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2003, 01:16:53 AM »
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elendil wrote:
Decelerators...that has a certain ring to it :-)


All the incompatibilities with none of the speed!  :-D