Re: RapidCAD CoProcessor

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From: Nico de Vries.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:11

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In <9204161529.AA17540@data.src.honeywell.com> bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom) writes:


>The May issue of Byte has an ad for intel's RapidCAD Engineering
>CoProcessor.  It is a drop in replacement for the 386/387 duo that
>supposedly gives up to 70% speedup on certain CAD functions.
Seems to be the answer of Intel to Cyrix etc.

>So what's the story here?  What does this look like, how much of my 3d
>graphics stuff has to be specialliy coded to take advantage of it,
>etc?
None. The RapidCAD just needs less clock cycles per instructions. Other
manufarturers do this already (Cyrix, IIT etc) and this is taking market
share away from Intel so thay had to device something better.

>Pete


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From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico de Vries.)
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Subject: Re: RapidCAD CoProcessor
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Date: 16 Apr 92 17:11:47 GMT
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