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- From: avery@ccrma.stanford.edu (Avery Wang)
- Subject: Re: Apple Crippling Systems?!?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.045325.23107@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <torrie.722399595@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 04:53:25 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <torrie.722399595@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan
- Torrie) writes:
- > avery@cmn7.Stanford.EDU (Avery Wang) writes:
- >
- > >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
- >
- > Ahhh, misinformation reigns supreme.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > There is no such thing (as far as I'm aware on the market) of a
- > separate math coprocessor for the 68040. The 68040 has a built-in
- > math coprocessor, albeit does not include transcendentals (in
- > this respect, it is just keeping up with the RISC chips).
-
-
- Wait a minute--I didn't claim that there was a coprocessor for the '040! And
- the rest of what you said is just what I said! Where's the misinformation?
-
- -Avery
-