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- From: kh@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Kevin Hammond)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Do you REALLY need a coprocessor? was(Duo opinions wanted)
- Message-ID: <By6K4K.As@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:48:20 GMT
- References: <1992Nov22.192008.120123@bmug.org>
- Organization: Computing Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Nov22.192008.120123@bmug.org> David_A._Schnider@bmug.org writes:
- >I don't have a coprocessor in my LC, and if I buy a PB160 it won't be able to
- >hold one. The only thing I truly want it for is the Satori AD module.
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- I didn't have an FPU in my LC (as a computer scientist, I couldn't
- think why I'd actually need floating point), but I thought I'd like to
- use Excel occasionally so I bought one. Putting one in has speeded up:
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- OzTeX DVI viewing (from unbearable to tolerable)
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- Excel calculations and chart display (from unbearable to acceptable)
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- Word Table drawing, and perhaps Page Preview
- (I can't think why tables should be faster,
- perhaps I'm imagining it!)
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- Finder colour scrollbars in System 7
- (again, I can't imagine why, if this really is the case, but it
- does correspond with the observation that colour scroll bars
- are slow on low-end [no FPU] Macs!)
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- Battlezone (it's actually usable!)
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- Quicktime (also usable)
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- I'd expect Mandelzot to become usable too, but I haven't tried this.
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- Generally, these seem to be fairly display-intensive applications.
- Most of the other applications I use seem unaffected, as I'd expect.
- For #65 I'm happy with my FPU, even if my imagination does make
- some things seem faster when they're not. Of course, if you have
- a Duo rather than an LC, these applications may not be so slow
- anyway, so you may not feel so great a need for extra power.
-
- Kevin
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- Dept. of Computing Science, Glasgow University. E-mail: kh@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk
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