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Article #7043Re: Soft PC on LC
From: Tom Oster
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1991 20:49
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1991 20:49
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In article <1991Jan25.113210.7552@vax1.tcd.ie> dagraham@vax1.tcd.ie writes: > Does the LC have a FPU anyhow? No, & none is currently available to my knowledge. However, a program called PseudoFPU appeared recently on comp.binaries.mac. I tried it with the Satori module in AfterDark (which requires the FPU) and it ran -- slowly, but it ran. The docs that came with it indicated that it would be about 100 times slower than the hardware version. As the original post was: > In article <1991Jan22.083949.20507@ecmwf.co.uk>, mab@ecmwf.co.uk (Baudoin Raoult) writes: > > > > Can you run Soft PC on the Mac LC ? I would expect that any resulting system (with 2 separate hardware emulations) would be far to slow for a sane person to want to deal with. PseudoFPU was written by: John M. Neil 3257 Greer Road Palo Alto, California 94303 He says in his documentation: "You may distribute this product free of charge to anyone. You may not distribute this product for any fee whatsoever, nor may you distribute it with any product for which a fee is charged. For information on commercial licensing, contact me at the address below." (In this case, above.) Hope this helps. Tom Oster - Computing Resource Center Baylor College of Medicine toster@watson.bcm.tmc.edu Opinions expressed here are mine alone.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!watson.bcm.tmc.edu!toster From: toster@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Tom Oster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Soft PC on LC Message-ID: <3872@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Date: 1 Feb 91 20:49:17 GMT Sender: usenet@bcm.tmc.edu Organization: Baylor College of Medicine Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: p.vpit.bcm.tmc.edu References: <1991Jan22.083949.20507@ecmwf.co.uk> <1991Jan25.113210.7552@vax1.tcd.ie>