Odd Sun thing

[David H. Barr]

On 6/28/05, William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> wrote:
> In the whatinthehellisthat department:
> 
> I have a small daughterboard, pulled from an very early Sun SPARC machine
> (perhaps the first generation Sun-4 architecture). The floating point chip
> was replaced by this daughterboard. On the daughterboard is the PACT8847
> chip (the normal floating point unit), plus a larger chip called
> 100-1845-1 SUN-GNUFPC. The daughterboard seems to be called GNUFPC COBRA,
> and seems like real Sun hardware.

"There were two types of FPU used in SS2's, the Weitek 3170 ( 
used in most machines) and the GNUFPC/TI8847 (used in some early 
machines). "

-dhbarr, cribbed from http://tinyurl.com/a6aec