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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!news
- From: avery@cmn7.Stanford.EDU (Avery Wang)
- Subject: Re: Apple Crippling Systems?!?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.004410.5143@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: avery@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Nov21.020604.224@physc1.byu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 00:44:10 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <1992Nov21.020604.224@physc1.byu.edu> writes:
- > I have heard the rumors that one of the new up-coming machines Apple
- will soon
- > be releasingis a 20 MHz 040 machine, but WITHOUT the fpu on board. Is
- this
- > true? If it is then WOE unto us, my brethren! Apple must be going the
- way of
- > Intel faster and faster! Does this mean that Apple will soon sell you a
-
- Well, let me point out that the NeXT doesn't have a FPU either, and
- although it could benefit from a coprocessor, it does reasonably. The
- reason is that the 040 has half a math coprocessor built in. It does
- +,-,*,/, sqrt, abs, and a few others, but not the trancendentals. On the
- NeXT, these are simulated in software, and it doesn't seem too slow.
-
- -Avery Wang
-