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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
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Subject: Re: Coprocessors - Business?
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Date: 2 Apr 91 18:32:05 GMT
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In article <1991Mar28.142109.1148@hobbit.gandalf.ca> dcarr@hobbit.gandalf.ca (Dave Carr) writes:
>Was Intel before its time.  The 8089 ?? seems to have died quickly.

Well, on one 8086 board i designed (8086 was a management, not technical 
decision on this one) i looked at the 8089. Turned out all the things 
i needed to do could be done by a few 20R8 pals faster, cheaper, and 
more simply. The 8089 was full of bells and whistles none of which 
I needed (well, only a small subset). And it was slow-- i guess those
things don't come cheap. This seems to be a still-followed rule with 
the DMA control chip world. Exit 8089.
ron
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