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From: mark@megatek.UUCP (mark thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Coprocessors - Business?
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Date: 26 Mar 91 19:31:17 GMT
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Whenever I read architecture manuals for (eg. the Moto 68000 series), they invariably
support several coprocessors. Also invariably, one of those coprocessors is for
floating point.

Often, the other is an MMU or some other silly system controller.

Has anyone tried to do something wonderful with one of the undedicated coprocessors,
examples of wonderful being I/O channel controllers or a business instruction set?

-mark