i860: Re: modern stuff

Eric Korpela korpela at ssl.berkeley.edu
Fri Nov 2 18:43:22 CDT 2018


>
>
> Was the 1983-84 year multibus sky floating point card the first
> offering from Sky Computers ?
>
> Did anyone use those in an embedded and online floating-point realtime
> type of setting ? Or was they only used for off-line number-crunching ?
>

Sky made the math coprocessor in early multibus and VME Sun 2 systems as
well.  I'm not aware of any embedded use of Sky FFPs

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Eric Korpela
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