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In article <1993Jan08.173711.14431@donau.et.tudelft.nl>, wolff@erasmus.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes:
> I am not sure what the 960MX/XA have that the 960CA doesn't, but our Xterminals
> seem to run just fine with the CA. As far as I know, there exists 960's
> with floating point coprocessors that are Military only like the MX/XA.
> Isn't the X protocol completely floating point free as to make a floating
> point coprocessor useless in such an environment?

	I'm sure they do run fine, but only because they're running
floating point emulation code. If you ever get the chance to benchmark a 960CA and
a 960KB terminal you will notice that the arc performance
of a CA is noticeably worse than a 960KB (but be careful - arc caching
covers this up for repetitive tests). When it comes to a terminal
running PEX, then the 960CA is awesomely slow compared to a processor
with an f.p. unit. And if  you would like a choice of downloadable clients
or graceful memory degradation on your terminal, then your out of luck
unless you've got a cpu with a memory management unit.

	Graeme Gill