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Re: NetBSD-Mach?
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the '040 had built-in PMMU
> (different than that on the '030-- more features), additional cache
> control, separate instruction and data caching, and built-in FPU. It's
> somewhat analagous to the 386 to 486 difference.
As I said, I don't know too much about either the '040 or the '060.
However assuming you are right here, these differences are (with the exception
of the FPU) mostly invisible to the user.
> As far as the '060, I
> thought it was RISC-based and had an entirely different instruction set
> then the 000-040 chips.
That's most certainly not correct. Otherwise NetBSD/amiga wouldn't have
got support for the 68060 that easily, would it?
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