Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!imada!micro From: micro@imada.ou.dk (Klaus Pedersen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Mega STe Questions Message-ID: <1991Jun19.134527.5037@imada.ou.dk> Date: 19 Jun 91 13:45:27 GMT References: Sender: news@imada.ou.dk (USENET News System) Distribution: comp Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark Lines: 17 ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes: >1) As I understand the Mega STe has room for a co-processor chip. >Does the chip come installed or is it an option? I suppose that it is >a 68881, right? Is it also at 16 MHz? Do there exist compilers which >generate code for it? Both Turbo C and HighSpeed Pascal (Maxon) support the register FPU. The libarays supplied test if the FPU is in the computer when the first floating point routine is used or in the startup code, and then uses the appriate binding... (emulating or FPU) I don't think that there is any 'automatic' binding for the TT - yet! The FPU is allways running 16 MHz... Klaus.