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From: allen@ccicpg.UUCP (Nebraska Ned)
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Subject: Re: MC68030 & MC68882 now out and available; comparisons with MC68020?
Message-ID: <3570@ccicpg.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 15:39:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 15:39:38 1987
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Reply-To: allen@ccicpg.UUCP (Allen H. Brumm)
Organization: CCI CPG, Irvine CA
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Keywords: 68030 68882  68020 68881

>The 68882  *** IS *** a drop in replacement for the 68881.

This may be true for hardware, but not software.  The internal state frames
for the idle and busy states on the '882 are larger than that of the '881.
The operating software can tell the difference by the format word in
the state frame.

Allen