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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Excel and Mac IIsi FPU problems...
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.215017.29786@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 91 21:50:17 GMT
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wjb@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu (William J. Bogstad) writes:
>	My older version of Excel doesn't want to work on my new Mac IIsi
>(no FPU).  I've been told that there is a set of modifier keys to use the
>the application is launched which will allow me to continue to run my
>software without purchasing the FPU upgrade.  

I'd guess that the upgrade would be free (after all, it's MicroSoft's poor
coding that is responsible for the problem), but for now:

There is a fake FPU program that supposedly makes Excel think there is an FPU.

Look in info-mac/cdev at sumex-aim.stanford.edu for pseudo-fpu-11.hqx.

The header says:

>AUTHOR:    John M. Neil
>EQUIPMENT: Macintosh IIsi or LC without a Floating Point Unit (FPU)
>NEEDS:     Stuffit 1.5
>
>-----------------
>PseudoFPU allows programs which require a piece of hardware called a Floating Point Unit (FPU) to work without one.  Just drop this INIT/cdev into your System Folder and programs that formerly bombed will magically begin working.
>
>Version 1.1 allows Excel and DataDesk to always run at maximum speed.


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Brian Aslakson

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