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From:Nick Lamburn
Date:17 May 2000 at 20:30:03
Subject:Re: FPU

Hi Gerry

On 17-May-00, you wrote:

> I have a Blizzard 1230/50 board in my 1200.
> Will a fpu make any differenceto the speed, particularly for
> paint/ imaging applications?

No :) I know of no 2d paint package that uses the FPU. And tbh, a FPU on a
system like a 030 these days will not really benefit all the apps which
actually use a FPU. But by all means buy one, but don't expect everything
to be markedly faster... :)

Regards

Nick.



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