16 Nov
2007
16 Nov
'07
10:39 p.m.
On 16 Nov 2007 at 14:30, M H Stein wrote:
Well, I didn't say or imply that dual-CPUs like
Cromemco's DPU and XPU or
intelligent I/O co-processors like their IOP and Octart were uncommon; in
fact I was just adding Cromemco to the list under discussion which ranged
from CDC big iron down to C-64s, and both C-64s and Cromemcos could
easily have 4 or 5 CPUs talking to each other one way or another.
Consider, as a modern example, one of the newer Freescale offerings--
a 68K core and 5 I/O processors all wrapped up on a single
microcontroller chip.
Cheers,
Chuck