From: ges@gandalf.baylor.edu (Gene Scogin) Subject: Re: Is a 387 coprocessor worth it? Date: 7 Apr 1993 10:48:13 -0500
In article <C53p8p.11I@news.cso.uiuc.edu> djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Robinson) writes:
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>Even on the 486, you might want the wietek processor if you do a lot
>of floating point work. The 486 floating point processor has to be one
>of the worst there is now.w. My Linux workstation :) is a 386/25 also.
I didn't think that linux supported the wietek coprocessor. the
weitek is NOT compatable with the 80387 style coprocessors. The
normal coproc. gets its instructions from the normal instruction
stream . the wieteks are memory mapped, what location you access
tells it what to do with the data. linux could support it, but I
havent heard of any any plans to.
Gene E. Scogin