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Article #21720Re: Intel 860 Architecture
From: Randell Jesup
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 02:19
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 02:19
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In article <112400013@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> afgg6490@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>..> Reciprocal approximation
[list of machines that use NR approx to do divides...]
You can add the RPM-40 (with its FPU) to the list. A FAST ?56x56?
multiplier array made it fairly easy to do that way. (I think it was
3 40Mhz cycles per pass through the array).
--
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!rutgers!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Intel 860 Architecture Message-ID: <8991@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 14 Dec 89 02:19:22 GMT References: <3818@convex.UUCP> <112400013@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 14