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- From: jmw@chem.ucsd.edu (John M. Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Distant Suns 4.1 questions.
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 19:58:12 GMT
- Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
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- Summary: Math chip/2.0 support?
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- In article <C02tDL.LwD@netnews.jhuapl.edu> bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy) writes:
- >
- >I installed DS 4.1 a few days ago (neat package!). How can I tell if
- >it's using the FPU? I assume it is, but is there a utility that shows
- >FPU usage? I'm running on an A3000/25 with 68882. The program is at times
- >slow, but calculating the coordinates of several thousand stars has to
- >take a little bit of effort.
- >
- I concluded that it is *not* using the math chip because the title bar
- says "--1.3-ffp" instead of "--2.0-fpu", and also because it would not
- use the "state" files from directory states1 (where the fpu-version state
- files are stored, according to the manual).
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- John Wright Chemistry, MS 0314, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0314
- jmw@chem.ucsd.edu jwright@ucsd.edu (619) 534-3049
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