les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash) (08/29/89)
In article <6366@pixar.UUCP> mccoy@pixar.UUCP (Daniel McCoy) writes: >Weitek XL. is anybody out there using/knowing-about/fond-of/etc the Weitek XL-8000 chip-set? i've just got the manual set. what a fascinating device! i've been using dsps and transputers for a while, which are like boxes inside which computation happens. this guy is more like a naked fpu with two giant gaping mouths inhaling instructions and operands. and yet i guess you could compile onto it. charming! kind of like the 2900 stuff extended beyond the extreme.