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From: beres@cadnetix.COM (Tim Beres)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Query about miserable M68882 performance
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Date: 4 Apr 89 19:52:59 GMT
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In article <7829@pyr.gatech.EDU> mccalpin@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (John McCalpin) writes:
>The 68881/2 are not really any worse performance-wise than their main
>competition, the 80x87 family. Both families are very slow... 
>...Maybe the co-processor for the 68040 will improve on 
>this situation.
>

Nit time:  It has been reported (4/3/89 EE Times, for one) that the '040
will have an on-chip FPU, as will the '486.  The '486 will also go
with an on-chip 8K mixed instruction/data cache.

I just read these rumours in the trade rags.

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