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Re: AVATAR

In article <1992Nov10.161132.1241@news.columbia.edu> stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.075926.23032@nuscc.nus.sg> isc10327@nusunix1.nus.sg (ONG TAT-WEE) writes:
>>Jerry Penner (jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca) wrote:
>>: 65265 (do they exist?) will likely slow things down.
>>: -- 
>>: Jerry Penner   jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca   Try a 1-line .sig today.
>>
>	Umm, sorry, that doesn't mean it exists...  Mensch has been
>talking about the "computer on a chip" for a while now... (same with
>the 65832)... I can't say that I've seen either.  Although the specs
>are floating around for the 832...
>
>
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Oh, does that mean that the 832 is vaporware? I though it came out some
time ago...

Does anybody out there know what the math unit does? Is it a built-in
integer or floating point processor?

henrik
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