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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: YARC coprocessor(yet again)
Message-ID: <52701@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 90 13:26:32 GMT
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| clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes:
| |Does the YARC speed up integer computation also or is it mainly a
| |floating-point accelerator?  By what factor would it speed up,

phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) <1990Jul31.084543.10523@amd.com> :
| 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.


Okay, so what does it coprocess?  IEEE floats?  Integers?  Arrays?
Neural nets?  Or is it a general-purpose cpu?