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From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Caltech's Cosmic Cube
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 21:25:04 EST
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> The Intel machine has 80286 / 80287 co-processors pairs.
> Does anyone know how fast these boards should run ? (Assuming documented
> spec mean anything)
> Chris Shaw

These boards run at 8 mhz.  The floating point speed should be almost double
what we got on the "cosmic" cube.  This was 25 microseconds for an expression
like a = b * c; where all three are memory locations in double precision.