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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: MC68881/2 Support
Message-ID: <12054@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 1 Jun 90 02:58:40 GMT
References: <1181@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> <11996@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1183@metaphor.Metaphor.COM>
Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea)
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In article <1183@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> djh@dragon.metaphor.com (Dallas J.
Hodgson) writes:
>
>Hmm, The Sun 3/50's used to trap out thru Unix for their FFP instructions if
>no comprocessor was present, and Unix has a much higher overhead than
>AmigaDOS.

Unix has a higher overhead than AmigaDOS because it traps on every OS call.
(the occasional implementation migh differr) When it comes to emulating F-line
instructions, the overhead incurred by Unix or AmigaDOS would be the same.

Valentin
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