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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: 960 XA/MX Questions
- Message-ID: <16302@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 01:35:11 GMT
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- >Isn't the X protocol completely floating point free as to make a floating
- >point coprocessor useless in such an environment?
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- The *protocol* may be; the question is whether all implementations of
- servers *for* that protocol are floating-point free, and I seem to
- remember hearing that not all of them are.
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- >**** a 486 in V86 mode is like a VW buggy with a 6 litre V12 motor. ****
-
- (You mean like an LM002? :-))
-