Identify HP board? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Nov 2000

On Nov 23, 16:03, Chris Kennedy wrote:
...
  Pete Turnbull wrote:

  BTW, anyone know the difference between an
MC68882 and XC68882? 
 When we were building accelerator boards for the Amiga we used to
 get those all the time.  The Mot rep claimed they were pre-production
 parts, or more properly, parts which hadn't been subject to the production
...
  acceptance criteria.

 Translation: They're the things that showed up when you ordered MC68882s
 too early in the game... 
That would fit -- the one and only reference I found to the HP board number
says it was superceded by another, similar board, suggesting this one is an
early one.  And why would anyone make a complex and presumably expensive
68040 emulator when you could just buy the real thing?  Only if you
couldn't yet obtain the real thing, I suppose.

Thanks, Chris!

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