Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!uupsi!sunic!chalmers.se!afs-news!trout!dahlstr From: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se (Gunnar Dahlstrom) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: Will WP 5.1 use a co-processor? Keywords: WordPerfect coprocessor Message-ID: <1991May16.102254.24258@afs-news.utc.chalmers.se> Date: 16 May 91 10:22:54 GMT References: Sender: news@afs-news.utc.chalmers.se (News System) Reply-To: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se () Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Lines: 31 In article s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) writes: >isaacso@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Eric J. Isaacson) writes: > >>Can anyone say authoritatively whether or not WP 5.1 will use a math >>coprocessor if one is present? I'm drafting some preliminary >>specifications for a new system and this will be very useful >>information. At present I'm editing a series of rather large >>documents that are heavily laden with graphics boxes using multiple >>fonts, and other things that makes WP really bog down as I scroll >>through them (especially on my 8 MHz 8088 at home!). I basically >>would like to know if a 386SX/16 with coprocessor will perform better >>in this context than a 386/25 without. > >Sorry, I'm no authority, but I can't conceivably imagine what WP _could_ >use a coprocessor for, even if its writers wanted to. I would be >staggered if there is even one floating point calculation anywhere in >the entire program. Well, look at those graphics routines in WP 5.1 (rescaling, resiszing and rotating) can you do stuff like this whitout floating point? // Gunnar =============================================================================== Gunnar Dahlstrom Chalmers University of Technology Div. Building Technology 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden E-Mail: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se ===============================================================================