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  3. From: gstovall@crchh67.bnr.ca (Greg Stovall)
  4. Subject: 683XX series with on-chip FPU???
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug17.230132.8390@bnr.ca>
  6. Sender: news@bnr.ca (News on crchh327)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: crchh67
  8. Reply-To: gstovall@crchh67.bnr.ca (Greg Stovall)
  9. Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx
  10. Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:01:32 GMT
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  13. Does anyone know whether Motorola is planning on building
  14. a version of the 683xx family (particularly the 68340)
  15. with a built-in FPU?  I know the CPU32 core currently does
  16. not support the coprocessor instructions...
  17.  
  18. Such a beast would work extremely well in a number of niche
  19. embedded processor applications...
  20.  
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  22. Gregory T. Stovall                gstovall@bnr.ca
  23. Bell-Northern Research            ESN   444-7009
  24. Richardson, Texas, USA            (214) 684-7009
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