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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: how big are the queues on the SPARC floating point units?
Message-ID: <6829@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 26 Mar 91 18:21:45 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Taken together, FP trap software that must run on all current SPARC
>FPUs only needs to deal with queue depths in the range of 1 to 3.  In
>the future, the range will extend from 0 to 3 and possibly higher.

Note that SunOS 4.x allows for a depth of up to 16.