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Re: AVATAR

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.

>	Yes, 65265s do exist.  It's a parallel coprocessor for the
>65816, something like a Cray on a chip.  Ask Thye Chean if he can post
>more news on the chip; I think he has a copy of the specs.

  No, the 65265 is hardly a "Cray on a chip".  The 265 is an embedded
microcontrolled version of the 816, containing in addition to the
standard stuff two serial ports, ROM, and RAM on the chip.

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