Re: ARM and 6502

[regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps)]

>pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:

>Charlie, how about first making a math coprocessor card?  Using a patch
>to the SANE Tools, all floating point math can be redirected to the ARM.
>There have already been cards based on the 68881 and 68882 that do this
>and the ARM would be a vast improvement.  Instantaneous FP on the GS.
>After you have sell enough ARM math cards, a full emulation coprocessor
>card will be feasable.

Funny you should say that. It is a natural application, but also, the first
commercial product I sold was a AMD9511 math coprocessor card for the Apple II.
Advertised in "Physics Today" in about 1982.

Charlie