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From: pal@murdu.oz (Philip Leverton)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun/Sparc FPUs
Keywords: FPU Abacus Weitek
Message-ID: <1794@murdu.oz>
Date: 11 Jan 90 07:12:56 GMT
References: <158@csinc.UUCP> <787@stat.fsu.edu> <42701@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <4411@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <47516@sgi.sgi.com> <25669@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: pal@murdu.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Philip Leverton)
Organization: University Computing Services, University of Melbourne
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The Solbourne machines come with either Weitek 1164/65 or something called the
Abacus (also from Weitek). (there may be other FPUs used in other models
as well). What's an Abacus do for you and where does it fit into the FPU zoo? 
Does SUN use it at all? (perhaps not - there was a list of SUN machines and
their FPU's in a previous article in this thread and it wasn't there).
Do any other vendors use the Abacus? (I like the name :-)

Philip Leverton
Computing Services, University of Melbourne, Australia.