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From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: mysterious socket
Message-ID: <212@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 88 00:57:38 GMT
References: <1988Oct31.183411.13975@utzoo.uucp> <5172@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <5172@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>in article <1988Oct31.183411.13975@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) says:
>> I wondered about that socket too, but came up with a more mundane guess at
>> what it's for.  I think that's the 68882 socket, and Byte simply mislabeled
>The 68882 is only a 68 pin PGA, the unlabelled socket is much larger.  Not only
>that, but there's no reason to have a 68882 sitting right next to the card
>connector, if the 68030 is all the way over on the other side of the machine.

In Unix World they have a similar picture except that they label the
empty socket too, they call it something like 'bus driver interface
chip'. Since it is sitting right next to the bus connector I think
that that's probably correct ...


	Paul Campbell
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