Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12074 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> So You have no proof that 68k team at Motorola made everything from
> scratch instead of use parts of older design to save time and money.
> This is your opinion based on nothing. You exaggerate change of part
> of cpu. It is just change of part of cpu nothing more.
Please educate yourself to see that the difference is on the gate level, i.e. on the actual microarchitectural level:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_unit#Hardwired_control_unithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode#JustificationThe claim was on Wikipedia from 2004 to 2009 and deletion was justified not by incorrectness but by unsourcedness (as per Wikipedia standards), also deleting "unsourced" facts like "
a second integer pipeline, a two cycle integer multiplication unit, a faster FPU, and branch prediction logic" in the process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Motorola_68060&diff=4592540&oldid=4462952https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Motorola_68060&diff=291144973&oldid=291144208> vampire has not any single bit of original 68k cpu.
Its CPU implements the m68k ISA, or rather a union of the different m68k ISA incarnations (AFAIK minus some rarely used instructions not even supported by all m68k CPUs).
> vampire do not share history with 68k.
It's just an ISA, nothing more. Anything else is religion.