I threw away my 8087 equipment motherboard last year.  It wasnt' an 
authentic IBM so it really only had geek appeal.  I think my phone is faster 
now!

            == John ==

"John VanSickle" <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
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> David Buck wrote:
>
>> The VS C++ 2005 version certainly runs faster.  Back in the Amiga days, 
>> we didn't have floating point processors so all floating point 
>> calculations were done by a library.
>
> Early on, yes, the FP lib was necessary; but if you didn't have a family 
> to support, FP coprocessors (and CPUs with an FP unit) were available as 
> well.
>
> Regards,
> John

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