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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: Transputer scheduler and documentation
Message-ID: <1245@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 89 23:49:53 GMT
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Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb)
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les@sirius.UUCP (Les Milash) wrote:
> I would have been buying those
> suckers with every spare cent if they could only multiply.  (I always
> wished the T212's had a real multiplier on it, you know, a 1-cycle
> multiplier like in a DSP.  now THAT'd be a killer chip; a scalable
> DSP.  (the niche is STILL OPEN, and I'd STILL buy them)

Well, I've been asked not to say how many nanoseconds, but you're gonna
love the T810.  Let's simply say that fp multiply is over twice as
fast as the T800 and integer multiply is faster still.
-- 
	-Colin (uunet!microsoft!w-colinp)

"Don't listen to me.  I never do." - The Doctor