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- From: howarth@med.uth.tmc.edu (Jack W. Howarth)
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- Subject: Re: Apple Crippling Systems?!?
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- Date: 22 Nov 1992 00:55:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov21.020604.224@physc1.byu.edu> <1992Nov22.004410.5143@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- avery@cmn7.Stanford.EDU (Avery Wang) writes:
-
- >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
- Are you sure that the FPU-less 040 isn't a68040 with the FPU disabled.
- With as many problems as Motorola has had with the 68040's production
- I wouldn't be surprised for them to sell 68040's which had flaws in the fpu
- section with that part disabled. Intel does it as it recycles what would
- otherwise be a rejected component.
- Jack
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