Re: AE FastMath card

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

In article <Xns932AB2F8A35A04659DC714424035B979@216.166.71.230>, vector
<abuse@aol.com> writes:

>I've been watching this card on eBay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
>ViewItem&category=4610&item=3402283886&rd=1) wondering whether or not I 
>want to bid, and I really have no idea if it would be useful to me.  I've 
>heard of some vaporware development projects for new IIgs math coproc 
>cards, but I've never really seen one or heard about one in real life.  
>Would this card even be useful in an accelerated system?  Is it right to 
>think you'd have to lose a slot (set to "My Card") to use this?  What place 
>does a math coproc card have in the "modern" IIgs world?

I was watching it too, and got it.  ;-)

Does anyone have any further information on this card?  Pascal libraries,
SANE libraries, etc.?  Since it computes in IEEE floating-point formats,
a SANE library replacement would be a natural, and would make Appleworks
spreadsheets recalculate quicker.  ;-)

I suspect that very few were sold, and so very little software was developed
to take advantage of it...

-michael

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