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From: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Inventor of micro-S)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.pc
Subject: Floating-point on AT&T's Unix PC
Message-ID: <1547@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 30-Mar-85 03:13:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 30 03:13:07 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 1-Apr-85 04:24:07 EST
Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences
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     Does anyone know if the PC7300 has some way of adding a floating-point
processor?  I used sdb to go through the code for floating-point multiplication,
and I found out it does this in software.
     By the way, the PC7300 is quite fast - significantly faster than AT&T's
3B2, if it weren't for the slow disk it has in it.  It also costs half as much
as the 3B2.  In some cases, the PC7300 approaches the speed of a VAX 11/750.
     I would be interested to hear anyone's comments on the Unix PC.
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Samuel A. Figueroa, Dept. of CS, Univ. of KY, Lexington, KY  40506-0027
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