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- From: blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter)
- Subject: Re: Suggestion for next PStream
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.141907.13624@rzu-news.unizh.ch>
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- Organization: ICU - University of Zurich, Dept. of Computer Science
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:19:07 GMT
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- John Derek Muir (ummuir05@ccu.umanitoba.ca) wrote:
- : In <1993Jan20.075902.11710@dcdwest.uucp> steve@dcdwest.uucp (Steve Meloche) writes:
- : >Me, I just wish that PageStream would allow multitasking during a screen
- : >redraw! I often change something in a page layout and try to do something
- : >else on the computer while PageStream is redrawing the page, but *no*, I am
- : >stuck with the busy pointer no matter which screen I click on.
- :
- : Get yourself a MATH co-processor!! THEN you'll be in buisness. ALL
- : programs that are heavy in the floating-point math are slow, but it helps if
- : you have a co-processor.
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- PageStream uses integer math. A FPU won't speed up things.
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- --Martin
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- Martin A. Blatter - blatter@ifi.unizh.ch, blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
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