[comp.arch] I/O processors

linimon@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Mark Linimon) (11/27/89)

In article <32146@winchester.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM writes:
>d) Many of the current high-performance I/O boards have 68020s, already,
>as in some of Interphase's products.

Change this to "almost all of" and I'll go along with it.  The only
non-MPU-based VMEbus I/O boards that I can think of, offhand, are
not in the "high-performance" category.  (I am sure a few non-MPU
or bit-slice designs exist; I'm claiming that they are now the exception,
not the rule).

Mark Linimon
Software Engineering
Mizar, Inc.
linimon@mizarvme

disclaimer: I disclaim that I even said this.