Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!obelix!ptoper From: ptoper@obelix (Andy Nagy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT-bashing party (hit "n" if you're not interested :-)) Message-ID: <2602@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> Date: 29 Mar 91 00:00:26 GMT References: <52f1029o06cX01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <4aQk02L406l501@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1991Mar17.031448.26855@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <15L002.N06Qt01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1991Mar26.043648.17656@NCoast.ORG> <2577@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> Sender: news@ria.ccs.uwo.ca Reply-To: ptoper@obelix (Andy Nagy) Distribution: na Lines: 27 In article <52f1029o06cX01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard) writes: > In article <2577@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> ptoper@obelix (Andy Nagy) writes: [stuff deleted] > > How much (functionally) has been left out of the 68040 that the > >68882 has? > > > > The transcendental functions have been left out, ie tanh, sinh, cosh, > etc. > -- Is it possible for the 68040 to use the 68882 the same way that the 68030 to do the transcendentals? If the answer to the first question is yes, then is it possible for a 68040 in the CPU slot (on an A3000) to use the 68882 on the motherboard? > /* Kent L. Shephard : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Nagy (ptoper@asterix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca) The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada "Dee do do do, dee da da da, thats all I want to say to you" -- The Police