Re: TI-H: Interesting thing happened to me and my 92
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Re: TI-H: Interesting thing happened to me and my 92
>No no, Grant, I mean what operating system are you running on it now?
I said it twice. BSD 1.4
>And
>are you SURE it has a 68000 as a coprocessor?
Yes. It handles stuff like video, hard disk, and security.
>I can't imagine how that
>would work without some kind of really overcomplicated instruction
>translation chip which would just slow the whole damn thing down and kill
>any speed increase....
It doesn't do any of the thinking, just the I/O tasks.
Co-processors don't have to think like an intel!
The MAS3507D is a coprocessor that decodes mp3s.
Grant
>>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
>>Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>Subject: Re: TI-H: Interesting thing happened to me and my 92
>>Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 23:37:12 -0800
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>> >yea ... explain
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>> >> I'd be curious to know how that works, since the 68000 isn't even
>> >remotely
>> >> binary-compatible with the x86 architecture....what are you running
>> >on it
>> >> now?
>>
>>
>>Just to give you an idea of how powerfull it is, the parallel port has DMA.
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>>Its primary function is a 3 wire systems control interface.
>>
>>Grant
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