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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
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Subject: Re: Does a numeric coprocessor help?
Keywords: 80387 80287
Message-ID: <1990May3.220015.25295@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 3 May 90 22:00:15 GMT
References: <1990Apr25.173820.18941@cs.uoregon.edu> <1990Apr25.223436.27955@seri.gov> <634@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Reply-To: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL
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In article <1990Apr25.223436.27955@seri.gov>, marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) writes:
> akm@comix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
> 
> >Will adding a numeric coprocessor speed up Windows? I couldn't find
> >anything in the documentation that said it would. (I am using Win386
> >2.11, which I upgraded to from 286 2.1) 
> 
> I would think that ANY graphics application would benefit from a math
> coprocessor.

I wouldn't think so.  A math coprocessor really only affects floating point
arithmetic.  Unless the graphics package does some very strange math, it
should primarily use integer arithmetic, in which case there shouldn't be
much of a performance increase.

I know that Excel takes advantage of the coprocessor and some other math
intensive Windows apps, but they use it for their calculations, not thier
graphics.
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