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From: Martin@pnt.CAM.ORG (Martin Taillefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: MC68881/2 Support
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Date: 31 May 90 15:25:30 GMT
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>The 68040 does not have a floating point coprocessor, nor the coprocessor
>interface of the 68020 & 68030. But it implements the most used instructions
>in hardware, and lets a software emulate the remaining less used instructions.
>The 25MHz 68040 will therefore achieve a superior performance than a 33MHz
>68030/68882. Now that makes sense.
>
>Valentin

So does 2.0 provide the necessary software to support 68040 transcendental
instructions transparently? Or will 040 board vendors (of which C= will surely
be) have to provide some patch programs to replace the math lib entry points
for the trans function and provide FLINE trap handlers for those programs
using the FPU directly?

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