AMD Bit-slice machines
Tony Duell
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Sat Dec 31 17:39:18 CST 2005
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> On 12/31/2005 at 12:27 PM compoobah at valleyimplants.com wrote:
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> >SGI IRIS graphics have a handfull of either 2901 or 2903s in them (not
> >as the geometry processor, but in some sort of control function)
> > Main processor is the 68020 or 010, though.
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> You could find 29xx logic in the occasional hard disk controller too.
And floppy disk controllers (the DEC RX02, and the Q-bus cards that do
RX02 format on an SA800). AFAIK, though, the microcode for those was
never published
> IIRC, Intel used their own 3000-series bitslice to do their first multibus
> floppy controllers...
Certainly the double-density controller in my MDS800 is 3000-based. But
the microcode is not given in the manual.
-tony
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