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- From: tbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ted C Brown)
- Subject: Re: Mac vs NeXT was Re: Need to convince boss 486's are *not* w
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:24:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.203127.19389@nmsu.edu> bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) writes:
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- >and NeXT with the 68040 FPU problem.} Being patient enough to let others set
- >the specs or find problems with the hardware is a better way to{This is likly
- >why Apple is letting IBM reliece its PowerPC 601 9 to 6 months ahead of them;
- >to find out what the bugs may exist in the PowerPC chip or in PowerOpen.}
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- Just thought I'd point out that there was *nothing* wrong witht the FPU.
- What was wrong was Motorola's code to handle the Trancendental Functions
- (which aren't on the 040 FPU). Anyone who'd used the 040 that early would
- have had the same problem. Motorola, once told of the problem simply
- rewrote the code (I believe a sign was wrong on Tangent ?) and NeXT just
- sent out the new lib. So it was a problem...but hardly anything serious
- at the time...or difficult to fix. Now the slow SCSI on the NeXT...
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