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From: ericg@sco.COM (Mwa ha ha)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: '287 will speed up Xenix?
Message-ID: <360@sco>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 16:26:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 16:26:11 1987
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Keywords: Xenix '287

tony@killer.UUCP (Tony Holden) wrote in article <1819@killer.UUCP>:
>
>The statement is:  if you have a math co-processor on board then Xenix itself
>will speed up by 20-30%.
>
>Is this true?  How come I've never heard this before?
>
>Tony Holden
>ihnp4!killer!tony


SCO Xenix has no floating point instructions in 
the kernel.  Therefore, a math coprocessor
has no effect on the Xenix kernel.   Applications
which use floating point arithmetic, will of course
be sped up significantly.


-- 
Eric Griswold  (ericg@sco.COM)
"When 80286s are outlawed, only outlaws will have 80286s"
I do not speak for SCO, I barely have enough room for my own opinions.