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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Telling a plain mac2 you have a 68882.
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Date: 8 Dec 89 20:50:19 GMT
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In article <17817@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> jeffb@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jeffrey C. Buchsbaum) writes:
>A friend has installed a 68882 chip in a vanilla mac2, and wants the macII to
>know it is an -82 and not an -81.  The mac has an fdhd upgrade, so it has the
>IIx roms ( or some such set above the original macII ).
>Is there an init or cdev that will let you tell the mac "I have a 68882, trust
>me...  ."  Thanks ahead of time.

	No change is necessary. The 882 is software-compatible with the 881,
and nothing special is required to tell the machine that it's there. It'll
work fine with no user intervention.

	I installed one in my Mac II a long time ago, and it's working fine.
Just like the 881, only faster.

R.


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