Re: i860 overview (long)

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From: John Mashey
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1989 07:02

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In article <13328@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:

>(b) several people posted results using big Sun4's and little Sun3's. I
>believe that the tests were done on a Sun3/280 with FPU and a small Sun4
>(I don't know the model number). Since troff is FP intensive (at least
>on a VAX) that may be difference.

troff never used to use FP;  has it changed recently?
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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: i860 overview (long)
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Date: 10 Mar 89 07:02:55 GMT
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