🚀 go-pugleaf

  I was told several years ago that the Intel 8086 could support up to
three coprocessors, because there was a two bit address field in the
escape. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I looked in my 286 manual
and didn't see it, but I can't put my hand on the original 8086 manual,
or I might have just missed it.

  The person who told me this was a hardware hack, and described a
system which used to 8087's and a custom multi-chip unit. The program
wasn't funded, he left the company, and I saw something in another group
about this.

  I thought Cray looked at multi-vector units per CPU and decided that
they ate too much bandwidth, but a chip like the 8087 has a better
ration of CPU time to memory bandwidth and could possibly get a big
boost in performance.

  Yes I know the software would be messy.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon