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- From: ganoe@sde.mdso.vf.ge.com (Craig Ganoe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: '040 & '882
- Keywords: A3000T-40
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.142439.7392@knight.vf.ge.com>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 14:24:39 GMT
- References: <9208181730.AA00580@aitgw.ge.com> <64364@cup.portal.com>
- Sender: ganoe@sde.mdso.vf.ge.com (Ganoe Craig)
- Organization: GE M&DSO - VF
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- In article <64364@cup.portal.com>, DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) writes:
- > 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.
- >
- > 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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- A good idea, but Commodore has announced that this was an error on their part.
- Newer ads have this corrected.
-
- Craig
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