Help me install floating point chip.

Roy Smith roy at phri.nyu.edu
Mon Oct 8 07:30:00 AEST 1990


amdahl!ntmtv!howard at apple.com (Howard Hart) writes:
> I added a MC68881 coprocessor chip to a Sun 3/50 [...] I believe the part
> number had an RB in it, and the chip had to be rated at 16 MHZ. (Sorry I
> don't have the details, I'm working for another company now).

For the gory details on how to put a 68881 into a 3/50, you can ftp the
file ~ftp/pub/misc/sun-68881 from goober.phri.nyu.edu (128.122.136.10).
It's probably in the sun-spots archives somewhere too.

Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
roy at alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy



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