Re: Math coprocessors for gs?

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

tracadas@athena.mit.edu (Philip W Tracadas) writes:

>I'm looking for a way to increase the precision (and to
>some extent the speed) of my gs' calculations.  Is there
>any such thing as a math coprocessor for the //'s?

Yes, the NumberCruncher. Uses an 68882, was made in FRG, and I don't
know if it's still available. There's also the FPE, basically the same
card, but I think it has bugs.

>What about the math capabilities of the transwarp board?

Transwarp (or ZIP GS) is just a faster processor. So, it speeds things up,
but there's no FPU on board.

Soenke
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