DOES 387 SPEED UP WIN 3.1

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From: John Will
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 19:35

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TO: bbrown@b11.ingr.com
BB.I read somewhere that a 387 coprocessor speeds up windows 3.1.
  .Not just applications like Excel, but windows itself.  
  .Is this true?   Why would Windows be using floating point anyway?

I'm not sure where you saw this, but to my knowledge it has no basis
in fact.  It sure doesn't do much for it, if anything.  I have two
'386DX-40 machines here, one with and one without, both running
Windows.  They both have STB PowerGraph video boards, the speed
in Windows seems exactly the same.
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 . KingQWK 1.05 . Artificial Intelligence: The other guy's opinion.

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