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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: 68881 or 68882?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.204855.8155@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom. San Jose, California
- References: <1993Jan22.004211.20427@news.ysu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:48:55 GMT
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- af733@yfn.ysu.edu (Ryan James Smith) writes ...
- >I've found a place that sells Math co-processors pretty cheep and
- >I need to know if it matters if I buy a 68881 or a 68882. I
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- If speed isn't that imprtant, then no, it doesn't matter. The 68882
- is a somewhat smarter version of the 68881 that overlaps more
- operations and can be 1.5x faster (but typically isn't).
-
- >(oops) ? And they had different speeds, do I need a
- >particular speed for my LC (my guess would be the slowest...)
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- Get one the same speed as the 68020 (16MHz?)
-
- By the way, do you have someplace to plug this 68881/2 in? The LC
- didn't come with an empty FPU socket.
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