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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CMI Board and Absoft FORTRAN?
Message-ID: <640@boing.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 89 01:36:32 GMT
References: <3409@sugar.uu.net: <1381@agora.UUCP>
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca.
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In article <1381@agora.UUCP> billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) writes:
=	The man you need to talk to is Larry Gutkowski. His address (from the
=PA Utilities disk) is:

	an address in Vancouver Wash, irrelevant for this followup
=
=	I know he has the library for sale, but I don't know how much he's
=asking for it. He's done quite a bit better job of handling a peripheral
=device type '881 than C= has done with the 1.3 IEEE libraries, so it's well
=worth the investment. (IS there anyone out there who's re-compiled ASPICE
=for '881 support yet?)
=     -Bill Seymour             ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!billsey
=                               ...tektronix!sequent!blowpig!billsey
=     Creative Microsystems   Northwest Amiga Group    At Home Sometimes
=     (503) 691-2552          (503) 656-7393 BBS       (503) 640-0842

Would you please provide some specific examples? Where is the C= library
lacking? Is there a performance difference? Can they multitask? Is the
installation any more difficult? Does the cmi library work with a
68020/68881 combination?
	 The last is not a completely an irrelevant question even if
cmi does not sell an 020/881. The question was meant bring out a point
though. You see C= does not sell a memory mapped 881 device either yet
they support it with their libraries.
    The design of the peripheral 68881 interface was set up so that
the libraries were a convenience for programmers that did not want to
deal with the details of software vs 68000/68881 vs 68020/68881,
however since the multitasking support is a required piece of software
that the vendor must provide, this means that and application does not
have to use the libraries to get at the 68881. This application should
be able to multitask with applications that do use the ieee libraries.

Ok, I'll go back to my cave now.
But I still want to know what the problems are with the 1.3 ieee libraries.
We are working on upgrades for V1.4 and want to know what the problems
are.



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Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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