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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Latest MC68020 bug list by request
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 17:38:07 EDT
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> ...  The MC68881 FPU has been heavily sampled and is close
> to being put into standard production.  There is only one serious bug on
> that chip that I am aware of...

There is another that friends of mine are quite disgruntled about:  the
chip has a vast amount of internal state, hundreds of bytes, and might
perhaps do context-switching acceptably fast if it had DMA (!), which it
naturally doesn't.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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