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Subject: Floating Point
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Date: 21 Jan 90 00:06:19 GMT
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Category 10,  Topic 8
Message 28        Sat Jan 20, 1990
GARY-S                       at 14:19 EST
 From apple!milton.u.washington.edu!sphinx Sat Jan  6 20:42:11 1990
 Date: Sat, 6 Jan 90 20:38:45 -0800
 From: Jina Chan <apple!milton.u.washington.edu!sphinx>
 To: gars@well.sf.ca.us
 Subject: 8087 interface

 From: sphinx@milton.u.washington.edu 6 Jan 1990

 Thank you for your efforts. I would like to interface my Sanyo 555
 (an IBM compatible but not a clone because interrupt-10 is not all there,
 which has 8088 and 8087 chips, 256k and two 360k drives) to the 8087
 math chip.
   I am looking for versions of hardware floating point extensions and F83
 versions that run together. I have a version of F83 v. 2.1 and Polack's      
FTP-F83.arc (downloaded from Genie) that do not run together. Is F83 v.2.01,
 advertised on back cover of latest Forth Dimensions, the same as 
 F83 v. 2.1 ?
   I could not get the .exe file in F-PC to load on my machine because of
 lack of available memory (or so it claimed). How can I get F-PC to run?
   Can VP Planner Floating point for F-PC v. 1.01 (also advertised on
 back of Forth Dimensions Nov/Dec No. 4) by Jack Brown of BCFIG and 
 BC Institute of Technology be made to run with any version of F83? 
 (Which?)
   I am at the U. of Washington in Seattle, Washington state, and can
 be reached on the Internet as 
       sphinx@milton.u.washington.edu

                                             --Jina Chan

 To: gars@well.sf.ca.us apple!milton.u.washington.edu!sphinx
 Subject: Re:  8087 interface

 Jina -
   The two F83's are essentially the same. YES - It is my understanding
 VP Planner F.P. will plug to F83. Download a copy from GEnie. You might 
 also down load a copy of Martin Tracy's zenfloat.<- this is a very slick
 two screen floating point routine I have mounted on several versions of 
 Forth. 
    PLEASE remember, I am a GEnie SysOp. Do NOT hesitate to leave GEnie 
 e-mail asking for specifics. This will perhaps reduce your on-line charge
 time.
   IF your site administrator at u.washington will get the latest (16 Jan)
 maps containing u.usa.ar.1 then you can address me directly on my home
 system          gars@glsrk.uucp
   glsrk is not in any maps older than 16 Jan !
     Gary
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