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Re: 68060 and the 68882
« on: April 20, 2011, 07:32:21 PM »
Yes, any 680x0 can use a 68882 as a memory mapped peripheral.
I've been able to clock several '882's to 60mhz. I would guess that the fastest would be in the range of 66-70mhz.
 

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Re: 68060 and the 68882
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2011, 03:03:11 PM »
I think this thread has gotten way off base. Just because something is possible, doesn't mean it's a good idea. The peripheral 68882 was really just a hack so you could use a math copro without an 020. The only adapters I know of are zorro-2 (microbotics starboard comes to mind) and would have really high latencies. I would guess that it would run 1/4 of the speed in peripheral mode. But, the really big problem is that there is nearly NO software that takes advantage of a peripheral math copro. I think only v1.0 of real3d supports it. Lightwave, vistapro, turbosilver, etc do not support a peripheral math copro.

The only way an 882 could reach 100mhz would be with liquid nitrogen...