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From: KUO@oregon.uoregon.edu (Shijong Kuo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: 68040 = 3.5 MFLOPS ?????
Message-ID: <16342@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 03:00:25 GMT
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According to an article on 68040 in lateset DDJ, Motorola omitted
floating point intructions for transcendental functions with their new CPU. 

Perhaps the 3.5 MFLOPS rating touted by Motorola shouldn't be taken seriously!

kuo@oregon.uoregon.edu

Why shouldn't everybody try to "mess up" the $50,000 ceiling of F.I.C.A.