Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!hobbit.gandalf.ca!dcarr
From: dcarr@hobbit.gandalf.ca (Dave Carr)
Subject: Re: Coprocessors - Business?
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.142109.1148@hobbit.gandalf.ca>
Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd.
References: <2892@megatek.megatek.uucp> <3299@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1991 14:21:09 GMT
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In <3299@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>The discussion of kernel CPU vs smart controller could become more
>interesting if someone made a general i/o processor as a coprocessor.
>The best of both sides of the discussion.

Was Intel before its time.  The 8089 ?? seems to have died quickly.