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From: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: All right! and 1.2M floppies; HwNote05
Message-ID: <2968@ci.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 88 00:29:35 GMT
References: <368@uncle.UUCP> <3462@rphroy.UUCP>
Reply-To: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <3462@rphroy.UUCP> tkacik@rphroy.UUCP (Tom Tkacik) writes:
>Fair enough.   I would like to put a floating point chip in my machine.  It is
>just too slow without it.  It's embarassing to get beaten by XT's and
>turbo-amigas, etc.

Unix 3.51 seems to have some support for an FPA (at least, there's an fpa.o
loadable device driver in /etc/lddrv).  Does anyone know any details about
this (like, what FPA it supports, and stuff like that)?

--Pat.