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Article #3662

Re: Amiga and ST Reliability

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From: Ken Badertscher
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1989 03:12
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mitchell@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Mitchell - QA) writes:

| ... can you make the co-processor
| transparent, so that properly-written software can use it if there, and
| not die if not?

  Yes.
  The SFP-004 coprocessor interface card can be used transparently
by software which uses the libraries which Atari made available to
developers.  Third party compilers are also supporting the coprocessor,
including Laser and Turbo C.
-- 
   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
   |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
  / | \  #include <disclaimer>
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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Amiga and ST Reliability
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Date: 4 Sep 89 03:12:41 GMT
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