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

[toddpw@ugcs.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)]

kapffer@Informatik.Mathematik.Uni-Mainz.DE (Matthias Kapffer) writes:

>Does anybody *know* if a 882 would bring any advantage in an Apple II ?

If you are writing code to directly access the chip and use it properly, then
you'll find that it does run faster. But if you're using an emulation
package that loads the operands, issues the instruction, and fetches the
result all the time, you won't see nearly as much benefit.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ ugcs.caltech.edu