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Article #8513Re: Excel on LC
From: Bob Shields
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1991 23:35
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1991 23:35
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In article <...> westley@orion.uucp (Terry J. Westley) writes: > [previous articles deleted...] > >Is it only later versions of Excel which require the coprocessor? I >have an SE on which I run an earlier version, perhaps 1.05. Will I have >to trash or upgrade my SE if I get the upgrade to Excel that I was >considering? > >-- >Terry J. Westley >Calspan Corporation, P.O. Box 400, Buffalo, NY 14225 >westley%planck.uucp@acsu.buffalo.edu | "planck!hercules!westley"@acsu.buffalo.edu No, no, no... Excel never "required" a FPU to run. The problem excountered on IIsi and LC machines was that Excel mistakenly assumed they had a FPU, and therefore blew up when it tried to execute floating-point code. This has been fixed in version 2.2a (note the 'a'). Excel can work fine on non-FPU equipped machines, it just needs to know there isn't an FPU! Bob Shields vbob@umd5.umd.edu -- Bob Shields vbob@umd5.umd.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!wrdis01!gatech!purdue!haven!umd5!vbob From: vbob@umd5.umd.edu (Bob Shields) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Excel on LC Summary: ver 2.2a works fine Message-ID: <8455@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 19 Apr 91 23:35:07 GMT References: <71577@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1991Apr18.071839.27937@news.iastate.edu> <1991Apr19.163343.28788@planck.uucp> Reply-To: vbob@umd5.umd.edu (Bob Shields) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 24