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says it was superceded by another, similar board, suggesting this one is an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!
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Thu Nov 23 2000 - 19:00:02 GMT