Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Looking for details on Atari Floating Point 68881 support
Message-ID: <1817@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 88 23:41:02 GMT
References: <8809061532.AA26180@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <8809061532.AA26180@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET writes:
>
>   This is directed primarily at the people at Atari, but since it contains
>both praise for Atari (!) and information that might interest others, I post
>it here.

    ... [ lots of good stuff about 68881 ] ...

>  - "gdat" of Bielefeld have announced an APL.68000 version that incorporates
>    68881 support, but MicroAPL cannot specify any delivery date yet (I suppose
>    MicroAPL spend more time working on their new Mac APL these days.. ).
>  - I'm trying to find out more on the OSS/CCD Pascal, but no answer yet.

This interests me.  Thank you for the info.

Until recently, APL.68000 running on an Atari, Mac, or Amiga claimed
to be the fastest APL on a micro-computer.  This news makes it all
the more interesting!

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    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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