Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.micro.68k Subject: Re: Latest MC68020 bug list by request Message-ID: <5883@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 17:38:07 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.5883 Posted: Mon Aug 19 17:38:07 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 17:38:07 EDT References: <483@oakhill.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > ... 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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry