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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <533@boing.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 16:26:53 GMT
References: <6018@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca.
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In article <6018@louie.udel.EDU> CHUCHEM%BGUEE.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
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=I subsequently purchased and installed the MC68881 coprocessor and
=corresponding oscillator from a vendor whose leaflet was included in the
=CMI package.  According to the promotional material, the board should
=speed up calculations considerably.  (Especially things like "savage".)
=So far I have not been able to measure any speed improvement at all.
=
=The release version of the 1.3 enhancer is not yet available in this
=country, so I can't reliably say very much about operation with the
=MC68881.  However I have tried operating it using gamma versions of 1.3.
=(My present versions say v34.4 for kickstart and v34.20 for workbench.)
=I have tried various combinations to try to get some sign of life out of
=my math accelerator.  CMI supplied no advice on how to determine if the
=MC68881 is alive or not.  For all I know mine might be brain dead.  Does
=anyone have any advice on how I can get the math co-processor to show some
=signs of life?  What can I check?  So far EVERYTHING I have tried could
=not in any way coax any response out of the 68881.

CMI should have supplied an autoconfig program that you install in the
expansion drawer. This program should verify that the 68881 is installed
and create a 'resource' and add it to the system list of resources.
The 1.3 ieee libraries look for this resource when they are initialized.
If it is not found it uses software emulation to provide the floating
point functions.

=
=
=Dave Chuchem
=chuchem@bguee.bitnet


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