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Re: another mystery card?

ding-ding, thats it exactly. FPEngine for speeding up floating point calcs.

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org> wrote in message
news:8V6Vc.27004

> There were FPU cards for the Apple II; one or two of them used the 68881.
> This looks like it would be one of them.  On a IIGS, they would've given a
> speed boost to any app that used SANE.  On 8-bit IIs, you would need
> software written to use it.  (They often shipped with AppleWorks patches
to
> speed up spreadsheet operations.)