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- From: loureiro@fiu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: DOES A 387 HELP WIN/3.1?
- Message-ID: <BzzKF2.n0E@fiu.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 20:18:37 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.194817.25666@kodak.kodak.com> <1992Dec28.185555.16798@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- Originator: loureiro@serss0
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- In article <1992Dec28.185555.16798@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >In <1992Dec22.194817.25666@kodak.kodak.com> thomas@acadia.Kodak.COM (Thomas Kinsman) writes:
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- >> "A Friend" told me that an 80387 would help Windows/3.1 run faster
- >> because there are a lot of floating point calculations involved.
- >
- >> Can anyone verify this?
- >
- >No, because it isn't true. A math coprocessor will do absolutely
- >nothing to improve Windows performance.
- >
- >--
- >"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- > in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- >Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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- A coprocessor will not improve windows performance, but may help programs
- running under windows that use floating point calculations ...
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- Leo
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