Re: Successor to i860XP???

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From: Tim Maceachern
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 12:37

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(re: i860 floating point being used in P5)

I hope that Intel can fix the 860 FP unit before incorporating it into
P5.  The paranoia FP test suite has some disparaging things to say about
the i860s in an Alliant I worked on...

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