Re: Help on FPU's

[dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de (Dirk Froehling)]

In article <3hlcf6$qe1@elna.ethz.ch>, GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH
(GUDAT,HENRIK MICHAEL) wrote:

> In <3he1bg$c2l@manuel.anu.edu.au> stu@aerodec.anu.edu.au writes:
> 
> > How much faster will Symbolix (1.8) run using either NC or FPE?  Which is
> 
> I haven't tested it with the NC, but the engineer said it's 100% hardware
> compatible. If this is true, then it will run fine.

I have the NC and Symbolix 1.8 and it runs fine. Thanks, Henrik!

> That depends. I have found that the FPE's SANE patches never worked very
> reliably for me (even in GSnumerics..hehehehe). Maybe it's merely an
> incompatibility with System 6. As far as I know the NC doesn't include any
> patches. Instead you will need to get a copy of the (buggy?) FPE software.

You'll get a disk with lots of sample code and programs and the FPE patches
with the NC. The patches are also available on a few net archives, but they
are outdated there.

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