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Re: Which FPU?
« on: August 26, 2004, 09:33:58 PM »
Vaguely on topic...

Never really thought about it before, but on reflection, how was the coprocessor communication handled on 68020/68030+FPU ? The different speeds of CPU/FPU must require some sort of asynchronous/waitstate design, I guess...

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Re: Which FPU?
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2004, 09:52:50 PM »
@Piru

Asynchronous it is then :-)
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