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From: amit@umn-cs.UUCP (Neta Amit)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Coprocessors
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Date: Sat, 17-Oct-87 13:00:33 EDT
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Keywords: Coprocessors

sc@VLSI.CS.CMU.EDU (Siddhartha Chatterjee) writes:
>                     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.

I define coprocessors as general purpose processors assigned to perform
specific tasks in parallel with the main processor.
-- 
  Neta Amit 
  U of Minnesota CSci
  Arpanet: amit@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu