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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Time for a new computer
Message-ID: <1427@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 2 Jan 91 23:41:31 GMT
References: <39588@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <16983@brahms.udel.edu>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <16983@brahms.udel.edu> don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
>	Having an '881 on this machine would serve no useful purpose.  The
>68000 can only access the '881 as a peripheral, not as a coprocessor, which
>a) is slower than as a coprocessor and b) is unsupported in s/w as far as I
>know, unless you write your own code to take advantage of it.

Although it is slower than the 020 coprocessor interface it IS
supported by the system software. The mathieeedoubbas.library and
mathieeedoubtrans.library can be used with arbitrary math coprocessors
(together with a custom MathIEEE.resource module) and have special code
for a '881 connected as a peripheral.

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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