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From: greg@gergle.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re:  NeWS's use of floating point
Message-ID: <8807242004.AA17741@frame.com>
Date: 25 Jul 88 03:51:50 GMT
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>I wonder how much faster news_server would run if it was
>compiled with the -f68881 flag.


No faster. It uses fixed point arithmetic. There are different assembler
files for the different CPU's.

	-greg.