Re: Faking a coprocessor?

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From: Steve Kanefsky
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:22

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In article <1dpceaINNho9@sipi.usc.edu> kuznia@sipi.usc.edu (Charles Kuznia) writes:
>Can a powerbook 160 fake a software program into believing it has a
>math coprocessor?

Yes.  Get Software FPU, shareware, available from sumex.stanford.edu, in
the file /info-mac/cp/software-fpu-221.hqx

>I would like to run Matlab, but Matlab v3.5 requires a math
>coprocessor.  I don't need heavy number crunching or speed, I just
>want to set-up data graphs for inclusion in figures.

That's good, because you'll find software FPU is a couple orders of magnitude
slower than a hardware FPU.

--
Steve Kanefsky

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Subject: Re: Faking a coprocessor?
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