On Nov 24, 12:38 pm, "Gorka Martinez Mezo" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Datum: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:32:54 -0500
> > Von: Britt Dodd <[email protected]>
> > I heard from a well-known mac guy in my area that the EC chips were better
> > than the full 040, so I swapped him for a EC in my 610. It runs poorly.
> As fas as I know, the EC is a further stripped down 040. From Wikipedia:
>
> "Versions of the '040 were created for specific market segments, including
> the 68LC040 which removed the FPU,
> and the 68EC040 which removed both the FPU and MMU.
I'm surprised it would run at all. I had always assumed that with the
MMU stripped out the Macintosh would be missing an essential
component. I'm surprised the operating system can handle the lack of
an MMU. It would be interesting to see what happens if Britt tries to
turn Virtual Memory on.
Jeff Walther
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