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- From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Acorn 610 as processor/coprocessor?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.222037.2710@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:20:37 GMT
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- Apples Newton uses a UK chip called the Acorn 610. 32 bit, lots of
- registers, orthogonal instruction set, a speed that is faster than the
- 68040, and all in something like 32000 transistors.
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- Assuming the truth of this, that I haven't mangled this too badly:
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- 1. How do they get all this in only 32000 transistors? Ok, even
- without cache, FPU and MMU?
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- 2. Something this simple should be cheap to make. Why haven't we
- started to see machines with a hoard of these on board? Think about a
- machine with 1 of these dedicated to the screen, 1 to handling IO, a
- dozen to slave for you...
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