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Article #11652Re: What's in the '586?
From: Jinfu Chen
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 15:16
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 15:16
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As much as I hate the marketing plot, the manufacture costs are not the same with or without a FPU/MMU. It may cost exactly the same in the wafer fab. However, Intel (or Moto for this matter) can save some cost in final testing by by-passing the FPU test suite.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!nddsun1!digital!digital.sps.mot.com!chen From: chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: What's in the '586? Message-ID: <519e407d.3593b@digital.sps.mot.com> Date: 17 May 91 15:16:48 GMT References: <1991May14.002130.4740@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <8840035@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> Sender: news@digital.sps.mot.com Organization: Motorola, LICD, SPS, Mesa, AZ Lines: 4 Nntp-Posting-Host: logic