Question regarding DS3100 Floating Point

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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 18:11

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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?

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!hammer!root
From: root@hammer.UUCP (System PRIVILEGED Account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Question regarding DS3100 Floating Point
Summary: it seems too slow
Keywords: FP coprocessor
Message-ID: <119@hammer.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 90 18:11:44 GMT
References: <Feb.12.10.17.01.1990.23389@paul.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: jockc@idsila.com (Jock Cooper)
Organization: Int'l Digital Scientific, Inc. -- Los Angeles
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