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From: riley@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: MC68881/2 Support (hello, Dave Haynie)
Message-ID: <10341@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 90 00:05:07 GMT
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Reply-To: riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <1183@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> djh@dragon.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) writes:
>The "shared library" support is not effective the way it stands right now,
>because only 1 of the libraries RECOGNIZES the FFP. And it's Not the popular
>one! As long as developers keep on using Motorola FFP as their standard,
>(and they will unless precision requirements demand otherwise) we're gonna
>keep having a lot of useless 68881/2/040 hardware lying around.

Doesn't 2.0 includes a single precision IEEE library for exactly this
reason?

-Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley)
-Wilson Lab, Cornell University