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Subject: Re: What's in the '586?
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Date: 15 May 91 18:34:07 GMT
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In article <1991May15.161816.22653@oakhill.sps.mot.com> eric@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Eric Quintana) writes:
>ward@vlsi.waterloo.edu (Paul Ward) writes:
>>In article <42347@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>>>A novel method has been developed for reducing the cost of floating-point
>>>performance to the end user.
>>Novel !!  I'll say.  This is going to be a real winner.  We'll sell you the
>>FPU, but you can't use it unless you pay us.  No thanks.
>Before this gets out of hand, PLEASE reread the original article.
>It sure looks like a joke to me (and very funny too).

Why is this so funny?  The most disturbing thing seems to me that except
for the bit about 1mm pins and the passwords being in *E*PROM, it sounds
entirely plausible.  And what a terrific marketing idea, too, just the
sort of thing the PC market would soak up.  Heck, they love the Intel SX
processors, don't they?

And how do we know you're really from Motorola?  Don't they all post from
portal.com as well?  :-)

ahem,

-dave

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