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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!umeecs!sparky.eecs.umich.edu!gilgalad
  3. From: gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin)
  4. Subject: Re: Sparc coprocessors
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul30.170140.14043@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
  6. Keywords: coprocessors, sparc, bridgeboard
  7. Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
  8. Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
  9. References: <1992Jul30.011300.475@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Jul30.024329.8959@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1992Jul30.090519.664@cheshire.oxy.edu>
  10. Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:01:40 GMT
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  13. In article <1992Jul30.090519.664@cheshire.oxy.edu> leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt) writes:
  14. >Doesn't the Sparc take a bit of a performance hit, running through the
  15. >ISA bus?
  16.  
  17. Why?  It is literally a computer on a card.  The only thing that it gets
  18. from the PC is mouse and keyboard info, plus a little bit more.  It
  19. is pretty much independent of the PC otherwise.
  20. -Ralph
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