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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 80860 as a math processor
Summary: let the 860 run its own instruction stream
Keywords: Nothing to do with Portal
Message-ID: <3715@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 15 Apr 89 16:54:36 GMT
References: <14716@gryphon.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <14716@gryphon.COM>, richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
> 	68000: Hmm, I need to take the square root of 6.6
> 					80860: dum de dum dd dum

I was thinking that the 860 could be a concurrent coprocessor; that is, it could
run concurrently with the 68000, mostly executing within its own private memory.

You could use it to get "reasonable" times on your photorealistic HAM 
raytracings (just kidding about the HAM part...hilk hilk) and your 
Mandlebrots -- kind of what the IBM "Wizard" board for the PiS/2 appears to do.
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