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- From: mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: Any chance we wills see an EC040 accel?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.214219.6889@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
- References: <1992Jul22.111917.1460@sarah.albany.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:42:19 GMT
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- In <1992Jul22.111917.1460@sarah.albany.edu> tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet (Teddy Wang) writes:
- >Motorola released their EC040 (68EC040, no built in FPU or disabled one from
- >intel famed 486SX, and no MMU) some time ago now. Are any of the accel
- >companies (GVP, PP&S, RCS, CSA, IVS, Microbiotics) going to take advantage of
- >this cheap chip as they have with the EC030. I can see it now: an accel which
- >is 30x faster than a normal 500, costing slightly more than an EC030 board...
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- >Any manufacturers going to build one of these? The market could be tremendous!
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- I wouldn't be so sure.. many people that want 040 speed will need the
- good floating point performance as well. A 040/33 outperforms a
- DECstation5000/125 in floating point math.
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- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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