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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Intel 860 Architecture
Message-ID: <8991@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 14 Dec 89 02:19:22 GMT
References: <3818@convex.UUCP> <112400013@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <112400013@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> afgg6490@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>..> Reciprocal approximation

[list of machines that use NR approx to do divides...]

	You can add the RPM-40 (with its FPU) to the list.  A FAST ?56x56?
multiplier array made it fairly easy to do that way.  (I think it was
3 40Mhz cycles per pass through the array).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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