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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Yield of core-MIPS chips
Message-ID: <20750@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 88 04:04:13 GMT
References: <9854@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
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Keywords: Query

An article by mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) says:
] First, a remark.  The photograph shown at ISSCC was of a motherboard/
] daughterboard configuration.  The daughterboard contains the RPM-40
] CPU and a FP coprocessor socket, and it was a green epoxy _PC board_.

Sounds like an adaptor from a PGA (or LCC, etc) to a standard WW board,
which tend to assume the world is DIPs.

Gee, this isn't net.flame, is it?

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