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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Math-coprocessors...just how good are they for day to day applications?
Keywords: math co-processors
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Date: 2 Aug 90 00:20:58 GMT
References: <13074@sun.udel.edu> <1228@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>
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In article <1228@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert) writes:
>
>In article <13074@sun.udel.edu> sphilips@sun.udel.edu (Santosh S Philips) writes:
>>Hi, 
>>
>>Just how much of an improvement can I expect from adding a math
>>co-processor to a PC with a hard disk in terms of software like WordPerfect 5.1
>Zippo. Only matters in computationally-intensive stuff, like Mandelbrot-set
>generators, unless Freelance Plus does 3-D image transformations.
>
>>1. Will it help the Norton SI rating if the machine?
>
>CI will improve.
>
	WHEN I run Norton's SI on my machine, I get NO DIFFERENCE
with or without the CoProcessor. Appears Norton's SI ( the CI, or
Computing Index portion) does NOTHING that makes use of the
coprocessor and therefore the Norton SI rating is independent
of whether you have a coprocessor or not.

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