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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: YARC coprocessor(yet again)
Message-ID: <1990Jul31.084543.10523@amd.com>
Date: 31 Jul 90 08:45:43 GMT
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In article <Jul.29.20.28.01.1990.2046@remus.rutgers.edu>
clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes:
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|Does the YARC speed up integer computation also or is it mainly a
|floating-point accelerator?  By what factor would it speed up,
|say, a 25 MHz 486?

0%. The YARC is not an accelerator, it is a coprocessor that
executes a completely different instruction set than the Intel
family. You use the PC to do cross development, loading, and
IO for the YARC processor.

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