Patch for Excel to correct behaviour with 68020/68882 machines

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From: Jeff Meyer
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1989 23:04

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In the always-informative MacInTouch column in this week's MacWeek, the two
Ric{k}s mention that Excel 1.5 doesn't recognize the 68882 for
floating-point operations on the Mac IIx, SE/30 and other 68020/68882
boards.  Microsoft will distribute a patched version of 1.5 for the asking,
however, that corrects this problem.  

Rather than try to wade through Microsoft Customer Support, I was wondering
if anyone has the patch to Excel 1.5 laying around, and wouldn't mind
posting it to the net.  I can use MacSnoop to patch Excel myself, and it
would save MS the price of a disk.  (What a humanitarian, eh? :-) )

T.I.A....

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Subject: Patch for Excel to correct behaviour with 68020/68882 machines
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