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- From: DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: '040 & '882
- Message-ID: <64364@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 19:26:58 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <9208181730.AA00580@aitgw.ge.com>
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- >- saw that it said it was a 25 MHz '040 and '882. Why do you need an '882? Is
- >- the '040 a coprocessor board? Thanks,
- >
- >The '882 was a typographical error.
- >
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- Since the '040 has to emulate some '882 instructions with software, perhaps the
- '040/'882 combo is legit... perhaps the '040 won't have to soft-emulate any
- instructions, it can pass them on to the '882. Not as fast as having those
- instructions on-chip, but faster than software.
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- Don DeCosta |The nice thing about sanity is| VM/Nomad2
- DonD@cup.portal.com |you can lose it more than once| Amiga/Imagine
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