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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.micro.16k
Subject: Re: 68020 production samples announced
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Date: Sat, 14-Jul-84 22:40:50 EDT
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If Motorola can really deliver working chips to that sort of spec,
this is indeed pretty impressive.  (Emphasis on the word "working";
that means nothing serious on the bug list, guys!)  (Just because
a semiconductor company sells a chip, doesn't mean it works.  Often
the part will be "available" for some time before the bug lists get
down to the point where you can live with them.)

I do take exception to one comment of gnu's:

   ....... as well as a truly general coprocessor interface, unlike the
   warts put out by Intel and National that hook up their float chip
   and nothing else....

No argument about Intel... but National's slave-processor interface is
general enough that many people use the National floating-point chip on
non-National cpus like the 68000.  And as far as warts go, has Motorola
fixed that awful botch of having to save microcode state when the cpu
gets a page fault?
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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