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From: toster@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Tom Oster)
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Subject: Re: Soft PC on LC
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Date: 1 Feb 91 20:49:17 GMT
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In article <1991Jan25.113210.7552@vax1.tcd.ie> dagraham@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
> Does the LC have a FPU anyhow?

No, & none is currently available to my knowledge.  However, a program 
called PseudoFPU appeared recently on comp.binaries.mac.  I tried it with 
the Satori module in AfterDark (which requires the FPU) and it ran  -- 
slowly, but it ran.  The docs that came with it indicated that it would be 
about 100 times slower than the hardware version.  

As the original post was:

> In article <1991Jan22.083949.20507@ecmwf.co.uk>, mab@ecmwf.co.uk 
(Baudoin Raoult) writes:
> > 
> > Can you run Soft PC on the Mac LC ?

I would expect that any resulting system (with 2 separate hardware 
emulations) would be far to slow for a sane person to want to deal with.

PseudoFPU was written by:
John M. Neil
3257 Greer Road
Palo Alto, California 94303

He says in his documentation:
"You may distribute this product free of charge to anyone.  You may not 
distribute this product for any fee whatsoever, nor may you distribute it 
with any product for which a fee is charged.  For information on 
commercial licensing, contact me at the address below."  (In this case, 
above.)

Hope this helps.


Tom Oster - Computing Resource Center
Baylor College of Medicine
toster@watson.bcm.tmc.edu
Opinions expressed here are mine alone.