30 Nov
2014
30 Nov
'14
10:09 p.m.
One of these days, I think I'd quite like to find
one of the FPUs; I've got
The 32081? I think the 16081 was the same chip, if it ever existed under that
number.
a few Acorn boards which use the 32016, but I've
only ever seen one out in
the wild with the floating point unit fitted - and I happen to have a copy
I can't remember if my ACW has it fitted or not. It has a socket for it, certainly.
of Acorn's FP test code which came via an
ex-employee. To my knowledge no
commercial software (such as there even was any for the hardware) ever used
it, but it seems a shame to have the code and nothing to run it against.
I think all Whitechapel MG1s have a 32081 fitted. I have a spare MG1 motherboard
somewhere, perhaps I should pull the FPU chip and try it in an Acorn.
-tony