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- From: skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok)
- Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows... again...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.173553.25265@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- Organization: Inst. f. Thermodynamik u. Waermetechnik (ITW), U. of Stuttgart, FRG
- References: <CMM.0.90.2.715255575.terjeh@maud.ifi.uio.no>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:35:53 GMT
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- In article <CMM.0.90.2.715255575.terjeh@maud.ifi.uio.no> Terje Holmboe <terjeh@ifi.uio.no> writes:
- [...stuff deleted]
- >
- > Hmmm... There is no use for a 387. What I now am wondering is this :
- > Why cannot Windows use the 387 ( if installed ) for some of the more
- > painstaking labour of graphics ? Is this to complicated a task ?
- >
- Not a flame, just a question: What kind of graphics calculations would
- you want to pass on to the FPU? Usually graphics operations use integer
- math and speed is limited more by how fast the CPU can get the millions
- of bits onto the screen (=into the VRAM on the graphics card) than by
- the calculations.
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