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From: aglew@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: dedicated vs general-purpose CPUs
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Date: 8 Aug 88 13:47:00 GMT
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..> Talk about general purpose vs. special purpose processors,
..> expanding by adding a general purpose CPU, or special
..> purpose, graphics, etc., devices.

I am continually reminded of something a Gould designer
said: in our (super-mini ECL) systems, the cheapest source
of CPU cycles is the main (multiboard, ECL) processor,
*not* the stock microprocessors that we have scattered
through the system.