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From: mikep@amdcad.AMD.COM (Mike Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC floating point coprocessors
Message-ID: <21261@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 88 15:41:02 GMT
References: <2038@obiwan.mips.COM> <1863@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikep@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
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In article <1863@ssc-vax.UUCP> benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) writes:
>
>Actually, Electronic News of March 21 page 23 talks about a "Coprocessor
>From TI Aimed at SPARC".  "The SN74ACT8847 was designed to be used with
>a number of CISC devices as well...Combining floating point and integer


I thought that article was priceless.  Early on it cliamed the TI chip was
"designed to work with SPARC", then later it said that Cypress was working
on an interface chip to connect the TI chip to SPARC.  Talk about opportunistic
marketing! 

mikep  -  my opinions are my own

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