patches to a few programs. The 68010's main advantage over the 68000 was that it could enough state to restart all instructions; the 68010 corrected The 68010's DBxx (decrement and branch) instructions could hold and execute the preceding instruction in the prefetchbuffer, allowing some two-instruction loops to execute without refetching instructions. At one time there was a 68010 variant that was pin-for-pin compatible with the 68000. Early Amiga hackers replaced their 68000s with 68010s in order to get a small performance increase. (1995-11-29)
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