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From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
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Subject: Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??
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In article <PCG.90Oct30191923@teachk.cs.aber.ac.uk> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk
(Piercarlo Grandi) writes:

| As to other rumours, I read recently, again on Byte or on the net, that
| the 88k has enough spare die to also be able to store some interesting
| chunk of microprogram. This to me makes much less sense, but who knows?

If they had that much die space, they should have fixed some of the
'features' of the 88k, such as having a real signed divide
instruction, and true IEEE Nan/infinity/denorm support in the
hardware.
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