Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!linus!alliant!rosenkra
From: rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 16MHz board and emulations
Summary: also floating point chip
Keywords: floating point coprocessor
Message-ID: <1757@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: 13 May 88 06:42:14 GMT
References: <6430@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz)
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA
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rumor has it (a reliable colleague, reading something on CI$) that a company
called xetek is making a floating point chip add-on for the ST, and should
realize performance improvements of 2-30x (obviously on code dominated by
floating point ops normally done in software on the ST). code has to be
recompiled. don't know what happens to line F with this implementation.
they are also s'posed to provide a library for flops. company is in Salina,
KS. cost: circa $200...

anybody hear any more on this?


-bill