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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!acorn!armltd!jbiggs
- From: jbiggs@armltd.uucp (John Biggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn Press Release 6 of 8 (A3000 range)
- Message-ID: <6122@armltd.uucp>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 11:22:06 GMT
- References: <18106@acorn.co.uk> <1992Sep1.152535.15359@odin.diku.dk>
- Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Ltd
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- torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen) writes:
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- >A good (and not unrealistic?) solution would be a single chip with an
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >ARM 3 equivalent, write buffer (as on the ARM 600), controller chips
- >and FPU, clocked around 40 MHz. Improved versions of VIDC and MEMC
- >would be handy, but they may be hard to use without modifying larger
- >portions of the software and hardware. I don't think Acorn will use
- >MEMC 2. A more realistic solution would be something closer to MEMC 1a,
- >but using a two level page table similar to MEMC 2.
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- Might as well put a keyboard on the same die too, it'll be big enough!!
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- --John (jbiggs@armltd.co.uk)
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