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- About SGIL FFP_Control
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- FFP_Control ⌐╩SGIL 1988 All Rights Reserved.
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- The SGIL company of France has provided a shareware INIT which
- replaces the SANE calls in your Macintosh with a faster mathematics
- library. It performs all calculations in REAL*4 precision (32 bits
- instead of SANE╒s 80 bits) which results in a nice speed improvement
- for FORTRAN applications running on an SE or Plus without the floating
- point co-processor. The Whetstone benchmark improves by a factor
- of 2.2 on an SE.
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- For many applications this reduced precision is acceptable. Language
- Systems Corp. strongly recommends that you consider the effects of
- reduced precision in your application.
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- To use FFP_Control, simply drop a copy into your system folder and
- reboot your machine. It will automatically replace SANE, but can
- be disabled form the control panel. FFP_Control is shareware; if
- you try it and decide to keep it, send $30 to SGIL as requested
- on their title screen. To view the title screen, select FFP_Control
- from the control panel, and click the button called INFO. Please
- do not violate SGIL╒s copyright by keeping an unregistered copy.