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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: 960 XA/MX Questions
- Message-ID: <16313@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 19:31:11 GMT
- References: <1993Jan08.173711.14431@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <1993Jan8.215944.10065@gandalf.ca> <DOCONNOR.93Jan8234804@potato.sedona.intel.com>
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- > MC : core + FPU + MMU, mil-spec
- > XA : MC + object-oriented tagged architecture, mil-spec
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- I.e., the BiiN machines all used mil-spec chips? :-)
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- >Note that none of the commercial parts are the same die as
- >any of the military parts : that would cost too much.
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- I seem to remember Steve McGeady implying that, at least in some sense,
- the KA, KB, MC, and XA all used the same die, even though the dies on
- the mil-spec versions might be more rigorously tested. The XA may have
- an extra pin or so for the tag bit.
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