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Article #2280Re: Does a numeric coprocessor help?
From: Patrick Deupree
Date: Thu, 03 May 1990 22:00
Date: Thu, 03 May 1990 22:00
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In article <1990Apr25.223436.27955@seri.gov>, marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) writes: > akm@comix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes: > > >Will adding a numeric coprocessor speed up Windows? I couldn't find > >anything in the documentation that said it would. (I am using Win386 > >2.11, which I upgraded to from 286 2.1) > > I would think that ANY graphics application would benefit from a math > coprocessor. I wouldn't think so. A math coprocessor really only affects floating point arithmetic. Unless the graphics package does some very strange math, it should primarily use integer arithmetic, in which case there shouldn't be much of a performance increase. I know that Excel takes advantage of the coprocessor and some other math intensive Windows apps, but they use it for their calculations, not thier graphics. -- "Organized fandom is composed of a bunch of nitpickers with a thing for trivial pursuit." -Harlan Ellison Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!tank!gargoyle!chinet!patrickd From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Does a numeric coprocessor help? Keywords: 80387 80287 Message-ID: <1990May3.220015.25295@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 3 May 90 22:00:15 GMT References: <1990Apr25.173820.18941@cs.uoregon.edu> <1990Apr25.223436.27955@seri.gov> <634@marvin.moncam.co.uk> Reply-To: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree) Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL Lines: 23