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Re: 960 XA/MX Questions

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From: Guy Harris
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 19:31
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>	MC : core + FPU + MMU, mil-spec
>	XA : MC	+ object-oriented tagged architecture, mil-spec

I.e., the BiiN machines all used mil-spec chips? :-)

>Note that none of the commercial parts are the same die as 
>any of the military parts : that would cost too much.

I seem to remember Steve McGeady implying that, at least in some sense,
the KA, KB, MC, and XA all used the same die, even though the dies on
the mil-spec versions might be more rigorously tested.  The XA may have
an extra pin or so for the tag bit.
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