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Article #2950Re: Compaq find problem with chip
From: Lord Snooty The Giant Poisoned E...
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1989 21:18
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1989 21:18
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I believe the Weitek 4167 (?) boosts 80486 fpt performance by "a factor of 3 or 4". In any case, how does the coupled 80486/4167 system decide which fpt unit will execute a given fpt instruction? and is this a way around the bug, temporarily - in that the Weitek would take over the sin/cos/tan stuff? -- ........................................................................... Andrew Palfreyman a wet bird never flies at night time sucks andrew@dtg.nsc.com there are always two sides to a broken window
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