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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: NextDimension question
Keywords: i860
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Date: 12 Oct 90 03:05:39 GMT
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In article <10685@pt.cs.cmu.edu> rwb@vi.ri.cmu.edu (Bob Berger) writes:
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>Will applications be able to download code to the i860 on the NextDimension?
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>It would be nice to be able to use it as an 80 Mflop array processor
>as well as a graphics board. Will a development system be supported?

I wonder how busy the i860 is with doing 24-bit PostScript. It might
turn out that it is too busy to make much sense to give it the
additional burden of array processing. Would be cool though to have an
96002 add-on board that could use the ArrayProcessingKit and leave the
56001 free for sound processing.

Ronald
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