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- --AMIGADOS GUIDE V2.6--
- FPU
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- DESCRIPTION:
- An FPU (Floating Point Unit) or Maths Co-processor is a chip
- specifically designed to assist the main processor in Floating
- point calculations.
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- NOTES:
- This Chip can be very useful in speeding up programs which use
- heavy maths calculations like 3D RayTracing packages for instance
- or Spreadsheets.
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- Most modern processors have an FPU built in to its architecture as
- standard and as a result are usually much faster than external designs.
- The 68040 and 68060 processors have an FPU unit built in as does
- the PowerPC 603, 604 and 750 cpu's.
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