Re: New Math Coprocessor - who has a need for it???

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In <CA57Cu.70u@news.cso.uiuc.edu> bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

> gudat@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (gudat henrik) writes:
> 
> >It is actually more useful than the FPE because it works :----)
> 
>   This is irresponsible.  The FPE obviously works, or none would have
> been sold and Byteworks would not have included direct FPE support
> in its languages.
> 
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Nope. It does not work in my GS at least. The FPE needs a software reset after
20 or 30 successful calls - but then the game is over. (It returns the internal
error code.)
Besides that, the hardware engineer of the NC said that the FPE contains logic 
errors. (I don't know if that's correct. That's simply what I was told.)

If your accelerator crashes all ten minutes, I wouldn't say it obviously works.

henrik

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