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Info on the FPE for the Apple IIgs.
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FLOATING POINT PROCESSING FOR YOUR APPLE

The Byte Works is proud to announce support for the Floating Point
Engine (FPE) by Innovative Systems.  This card can speed up
floating-point intensive programs by a factor of 40 to 120!

The floating point card card is based on the Motorola MC68881
floating point processor (the same processor used in the Mac II).
Support for the card is already available in the form of a special-
order version of ORCA/Pascal.  Starting with version 1.3, support for
the card will be standard in ORCA/Pascal.  The card is shipped with
macros that allow your current versions of ORCA/M and APW make
use of the incredible speed-ups this card can produce on floating
point calculations.

The Savage benchmark, a standard test of floating point calculations,
serves as an excellent example of what can be done with this card.
This benchmark requires 72 seconds to do a series of floating point
operations using Apple's SANE Floating Point package.  With the FPE
and ORCA/Pascal, the benchmark is done in under 1 second!

The list price for Innovative Systems Floating Point Engine is
$199.95.  It can be purchased from

          Innovative Systems
          7892 Covington Ave.
          Glen BurnieD  21061