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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What would you use for Fast Floating-Point?
Keywords: Floating-point,Coprocessors
Message-ID: <5346@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 89 02:57:42 GMT
References: <2105@randvax.UUCP> <1216@rlgvax.UUCP>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <1216@rlgvax.UUCP> golds@rlgvax.UUCP (Rich Goldschmidt) writes:
}386/20MHz  with 80387: 0.4 MFlop  ~$250 (?)
}  with Weitek 1167/20: 2.0 MFlop  ~$2500 with software
}  32 bit integer math: 2.4 MFlop  your time to convert to integer math
			^^^^^^^^^
			0.0 MFlop -- you're doing 0 floating point operations
(sorry, couldn't resist picking that nit....)

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