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From: thollowe@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Tom Hollowell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 8087-2
Message-ID: <408@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 12 Jan 89 19:28:55 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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I know this is going to sound like a pretty lame question, but I 
was wondering if anybody out there could tell me what the 8087-2 
does, and whether it is worth getting.  I do know it is a math 
co-processor for floating point arithmetic, but does it affect
speed?  Thanks in advnace.