Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!SMOKE.BRL.MIL!info-apple-request From: info-apple-request@SMOKE.BRL.MIL Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8907141708.aa05979@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 15 Jul 89 16:31:45 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 Date: 14 JUL 89 23:07- From: Achim Patzner To: INFO-APPLE @ BRL.MIL Subject: 68881 support for the //gs Date: 14-JUL-1989 22:55:01.81 From: Achim Patzner To: 0::"info-apple@brl.mil" Subj: 68881 support for the //gs It was me who asked whether there is something out somewhere... A friend of mine was thinking about developing an 68881 card for the Apple //gs because he uses his computer for task that need heavy number crunching. (Try the following: Write a Pascal or C program that does nothing but dividing 10.0 by 3.0 and run it on an Apple //gs... then do it on any unenhanced standard IBM PC -if you can find one-. Don't be too much surprised). Neither the construction of the hardware should be a problem (at least my friend thinks so) nor programming a SANE toolbox to support it. All I wanted to know is whether I'd be re-inventing a wheel someone else invented before. Achim Patzner (Patzner@DBNINF5.Bitnet)