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From: sc@VLSI.CS.CMU.EDU (Siddhartha Chatterjee)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Coprocessors
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 11:36:50 EDT
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Recent postings regarding specialized hardware support for various functions 
(eg, OS, sort) have been using the term "coprocessor".  However, from the 
postings it appears that different people have different things in mind when
they use the term.  I'd like to know what precisely people mean when they say
"coprocessor", and how they think it differs from other types of specialized
processors, such as I/O processors.

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