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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 80387 25MHz & 33MHz Questions (Was : 80387 25MHz question)
Keywords: math coprocessor, clones
Message-ID: <3786@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 91 03:23:27 GMT
References: <298@sahara.cs.utexas.edu> <1991Apr9.161838.23008@engin.umich.edu> <3295@kluge.fiu.edu> <1991Apr18.211744.12564@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
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In article <1991Apr18.211744.12564@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> jsims@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (J. Robert Sims) writes:

| True.  However, almost nothing will use the Weitek.  The only packages I've
| heard of that will are a few obscure finite element analysis packages, and
| those will also use the *87 processors.

  There are compilers available for C, F77, and Pascal, in MS-DOS and
UNIX. If you mean commercial programs for the 387 don't use a totally
different chip, that's true. People who are thinking about a Witek don't
find finite element programs obscure.
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