Hidden MC68010?
Posted: Sun May 08, 2022 10:50 am
I have a bunch of 68010 chips and there is a SC87842. Reading this statement about the CPU board on an Apollo DN300:
"I was expecting the CPU to be a 68010, yet this is a SC87842, which doesn't ring a bell. According to the sales brochure, this is a dedicated 32-bit VLSI processor with integral page fault hardware (as opposed to high-end models, back then, such as DN460 and DN660, featuring a 32-bit bit-slice processor and cache memory)."
Is the SC87842 actually a MC68010 because the latter has the page fault fix as described for the former?
"I was expecting the CPU to be a 68010, yet this is a SC87842, which doesn't ring a bell. According to the sales brochure, this is a dedicated 32-bit VLSI processor with integral page fault hardware (as opposed to high-end models, back then, such as DN460 and DN660, featuring a 32-bit bit-slice processor and cache memory)."
Is the SC87842 actually a MC68010 because the latter has the page fault fix as described for the former?