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From: lutmann@geocub.greco-prog.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Question regarding DS3100 Floating Point
Keywords: FP coprocessor
Message-ID: <1652@geocub.greco-prog.fr>
Date: 16 Feb 90 14:49:00 GMT
References: <Feb.12.10.17.01.1990.23389@paul.rutgers.edu> <119@hammer.UUCP> <9711@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
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Reply-To: lutmann@goofi.UUCP (Johan: Pourquoi tant de Haine?)
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In article <9711@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> thompson@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson) writes:
>In article <119@hammer.UUCP> jockc@idsila.com (Jock Cooper) writes:
>>I have this ray tracing toy that runs faster on our MicroVax 
>>(has FP coprocessor) than on my DECstation 3100. Does the 3100 
>>have a Floating Point chip or what? Or is it an option?
>[...]
>of a fluid stucture. The MC code is 10% faster on the VAXstation than
>on the DECstation, and the MD code is 4 times faster on the DECstation.
>[...]
>Steve

    Hi!
    
    What's the MC code?
    What's the MD code?
    
   
  
                Thanks,
                        Johan.