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- From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Apple Crippling Systems?!?
- Message-ID: <19183@ksr.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 11:59:23 EST
- 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.
- >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.
-
- No, apparently Apple will be building machines around a stripped-down 68040
- which lacks any floating point hardware. Because Motorola can supply such
- chips for quite a bit less (higher yields), the resulting systems should be
- potentially less expensive than those developed around full 68040 cores.
-