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Article #12515What is a co-processor
From: Richard Sexton
Date: Thu, 04 May 1989 16:38
Date: Thu, 04 May 1989 16:38
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Picky point. From the spider web infested dusty recesses of my mind I seem to recall some time wasted in a computer science education, where, by rote, we learned such gems as "an interrupt is a forced change of state". I faintly recall from that period that the definition of a co-processor is a processor that executes instructions from the instruction stream of the another processor; badly worded, but you get the idea. This would make the 8087 and 68881 true coprocessors, and the Weitek 3116 and COPPER relegated to being peripheral chips. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. -- ``You are mistaking my good-naturedness for "impotence"'' - Ted Kaldis richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!indri!polyslo!usc!hacgate!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: What is a co-processor Keywords: 80860, copper Message-ID: <15449@gryphon.COM> Date: 4 May 89 16:38:10 GMT Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, Ca. Lines: 18