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From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Subject: Re: GNU and Freescale MPC83xx / e300 core support?
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 07:33:11 -0500
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On Mar 7, 2006, at 12:52 AM, Russell McGuire wrote:

> .....  The most obvious core difference is
> the Floating Point unit; the MPC8280, 603e or G2LE core had no floating
> point ability at all.

I just want to state for archive purposes this simply isn't true.
All of those processors had hardware FPUs.  If you would take
a few seconds and read the product overviews for these parts,
you can make your own informed decision.  The person you
are talking to doesn't seem to have all of the facts in order.


	-- Dan