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From: dgh@sun.uucp (David Hough)
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Subject: Floating Point Chip Architecture
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 20:47:31 EST
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The following abstract is for an article to be posted to net.arch
in a few days.  I am posting the abstract to notify persons who may
be interested but don't subscribe to net.arch.


               Extending Weitek Architecture


                        David Hough



                          ABSTRACT
 
          This paper contains personal opinions of  the
     author which should not be assumed to be the posi-
     tion of any organization.  The Motorola 68881  and
     Weitek  1164/1165 chips have become popular float-
     ing point implementations and represent  different
     decisions  about performance, complexity, and con-
     formance to the IEEE standard. Future chip sets in
     the  Weitek  style  should incorporate some of the
     ideas that shaped the 68881.