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From: gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Japanese 32-bit micro can be a 6802
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Date: 19 May 88 00:15:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    May 18 19:15:00 1988


For those of you who enjoy "diddling microcode", the AMD 2900 has been
around almost forever (well, 10+ years -- it was used in the Xerox
DLion, which DOES switch instruction sets, although only during
world-swap).  And there's the AMD29000 in case you want 16 or 32-bit
performance.  So I don't think the japanese chip is any great
breakthrough.

Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois
            {gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu}