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Portable Network Graphic  |  1994-02-06  |  156KB  |  816x1056  |  8-bit (256 colors)

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OCR: 68881 mode is available only on Mac II systems, and on other machines equipped with 68020 processors Mandelbrot and iteration 68881 math accesses the Coprocessors. 68881 In processor this mode, directly the via critical hand- inner -coded loop machine of the language This mode IS very fast; runs entirely in the 68020 cache stores intermediate operands in the 68881 registers, and performs no memory accesses in the inner loop It's the most accurate of any mode as it uses 80-bit extended -precision floating -point numbers, and is almost always the fastest SANE mode uses 80-bit floating point numbers, and performs its calculations via the SANE package in the Mac's ROM. This mode IS as accurate as 68881 mode but is woefully slow, especially on machines not equipped with a 68881 coprocessor. Fix ...

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