Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!atha!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!rwa From: rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (Ross Alexander) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: microprocessor wanted Message-ID: Date: 28 Apr 91 22:56:38 GMT References: <119279@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <2689@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> Organization: Athabasca University Lines: 18 robf@mcs213j.cs.umr.edu (Rob Fugina) writes: >In article <119279@unix.cis.pitt.edu> fmgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz) writes: >> I need a microprocessor with the following specifications: >> o BUILT-IN floating processor (that's the problem) >> o CHEAP (under $40) >I don't have a solid answer for you, but somebody else may be able to >finish it. I think I heard from somebody once that the uP in the TI99/4A >had a uP with a built-in floating point processor. If this is true, It's not. Sorry. The cpu in a TI99/4 is a TI9900, and it definitely doesn't have a floating instruction set. Good grief, it just barely has an integer instruction set :-P. I hacked on the 9900 for a while, and it was not pleasant. -- Ross Alexander rwa@cs.athabascau.ca (403) 675 6311 ve6pdq `You were s'posed to laugh!' -- Zippy