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)