co-processor

In the case of Azul, the appliance is a kind of Java co-processor that sits on the network providing compute assistance to many different Java applications running on many different machines.

Azul Means (Big) Blue « Isegoria 2008

To Dell's credit, the technician considered the cost of new memory, a new motherboard, the speed of the co-processor, and the age of my machine, and told me that in his opinion it was worth while fixing my present machine.

Computer service south of the border: crash, burn, and learn 2007

The technician whom I now know intimately as Ernesto - but at the time named the Nerd because he would not, like his kind everywhere, make eye contact - told me the problem was either the central card of operations (apparently you don't say motherboard around here) or the co-processor, and gave me the Dell phone number in Mexico.

Computer service south of the border: crash, burn, and learn 2007

The delay, he said, was due to Apple's system-on-chip architectural change from supplier PortalPlayer to another supplier -- probably Samsung -- that can offer an integrated audio-video co-processor.

IPod Delays Take A Bite Out Of Apple 2006

Similar capabilities are already built into Apple's G4 and G5 Macs, which have a floating-point co-processor called AltiVec, which handles complex, data-intensive calculations for the main processor.

Turn That PC Into a Supercomputer 2003

When it comes to market, the chip will likely be sold to consumers as a co-processor -- an add-on PCI card that works in parallel with a PC's main processor, just like an add-on graphics card.

Turn That PC Into a Supercomputer 2003

Also assume that the co-processor is also to take a hash h of whatever kernel k is running on the ordinary CPU.

Boing Boing: June 30, 2002 - July 6, 2002 Archives 2002

Basically, you have a hardware co-processor within a machine which contains some unique secret symmetric key not known to anybody other than the co-processor.

Boing Boing: June 30, 2002 - July 6, 2002 Archives 2002

If CMOS byte 41, bit 4 is high (co-processor disabled), SQL Administrator will hang.

AST Research Technical Bulletin #0757 AST PREMIUM 486/33 WITH SQL SERVER 1992

Even the Motorola 68000 processor used in the Macintosh came as a co-processor for the AppleII.

The Apple II History, by Steven Weyhrich : Peripherals and the Apple II Abroad 1992