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From: daryl@hpcllcm.HP.COM (Daryl Odnert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP825 math 15x SLOWER than 825
Message-ID: <3770002@hpcllcm.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 88 20:50:49 GMT
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Organization: HP NSG/ISD Computer Language Lab
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Word has been circulating here at HP that the Roger Clark's S825 had
a bad floating-point coprocessor in it.  One of the features of the
system, however, is that if no floating-point coprocessor is present
in the hardware, the floating-point instruction are emulated in
software.  This accounts for the poor performance of this benchmark.
Apparently, the system believed that no coprocessor was avaiable.

Can you verify this for those of us who are following this on notes, Roger?

Thanks,
Daryl Odnert
HP Computer Language Lab
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