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From: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: 80387 co-processor useful?
Message-ID: <2246@sud509.ed.ray.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 20:09:08 GMT
Sender: heiser@sud509.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser - Unix Sys Admin @ Raytheon Company, Sudbury MA)
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I think I recall seeing a message someplace saying something to the
effect that the 80387 math co-processor is useful when running 
X-windows.  Is this true?  Does X do some kind of mathematical
computations that would benefit from the 387?  How about Unix itself?
(Esix)?

bill

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