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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: 249 hours to generate Mandelbrot on my 286
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>Don't feel so distraught.  The problem is LACK OF COPROCESSOR.  There
>was a fractint image that I created long ago, before I got a
>coprocessor, and these were the times:
>
>      Image on 8mhz XT, no copper           Image in 8mhz XT, copper
>         23 hours                             18 minutes
>
>Same configuration, same machine, only difference was the coprocessor.

Reminds me of my experience with Grapher. Screen
drawing would take 2 1/2 minutes without 8087, 4
seconds with. Amazing. But I hear that 287s don't 
give as dramatic an increase.


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