OT-ish, Museums and MP3s Re: Museum interpretations

[Dave McGuire]

On May 22, 2009, at 5:36 PM, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
>>   You could probably interface something like an 8087 to that.   
>> Their architecture is actually kinda nice, IMO.
>
> Unlikely , but the 8087 sold a lot PC's. I have Knuth's books so I  
> can at
> least write some floating point software. Ben.

   Have you seen the uM-FPU series of chips?  They're not fast, but  
they'll give you floating point.  I have one of those on one of my  
Z80 SBCs.  They're pretty neat, and damn easy to interface.  You  
should check them out if you haven't already.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL