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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cyrix - Fast Divide, etc.
Message-ID: <1904@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 89 13:29:54 GMT
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In article <112400012@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> afgg6490@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
| 
| comp.arch might be interested in a few details about the
| Cyrix math chip.  This is a 387 / Weitek compatible chip,
| boasting significant speedups.  (Biggest speedup, of course,
| is avoiding the coprocessor interface).

  Two questions: (1) since this is a plug-in replacement for the 80387,
how does it avoid the coprocessor interface, and (2) in what way is it
Weitek compatible? I haven't heard that it will run Weitek code, is this
a typo or underpublicized feature?
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon