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On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Mats Lofkvist wrote:

> (*) Or was it _two_ of them? I have some faint memories they had to use
>     two to make it work with a multi-process os.

If I remember right, the 68010 had a limitation that made it difficult to
deal with page faults, so the second 68010's purpose was to take care of
page faults, then let the primary 68010 continue.