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From: albaugh@dms.UUCP (Mike Albaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Wanted:  68881 FPU emulation library
Message-ID: <935@dms.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 18:33:09 GMT
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From article <129186@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by mrm%puffin@Sun.COM (Marianne Mueller Kreuscher):
>>>We need the source for a 68881 FPU emulation library using F-line traps for
>>>the 68030.  [...]
> 
> 
> Why?  I'm just curious.  Stores around here sell the MC68881 for
> something like $150.

	Sure is a different world out there. To some of us $150 is half the
cost of the whole board. A bit intense to let some dweeb-written code
(without source) print one floating-point number :-)

	Please note the smiley. I'm not saying this extreme example is
really common, but there are people who design production systems
(i.e., the cost is not $150, but $150 x (production run)) and there are
also people who view floating point as a slow way to get inaccurate
answers. I happen to be both.

	BTW: a) I wasn't the original poster. We can't even afford 68030's.
	b) I probably would have mailed, rather than posting, but I have
	had zero success rate with addresses containing '%' going through
	sun.
					Mike

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