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From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Fake Color Quickdraw (was Re: a whole bunch of things)
Message-ID: <4976@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 88 19:14:46 GMT
References: <227@hodge.UUCP> <3988@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <5212@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <46753DN5@PSUVM> <13829@apple.Apple.COM> <390@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> <13954@apple.Apple.COM> <14446@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
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In article <14446@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> kennel@minnie.UUCP (Matthew Kennel) writes:
>>Apple examined the possibility of emulating the 881 in software.  We
>>concluded 1) It would be a tremendous amount of work -- Motorola tried it
>>and gave up, and 2) it would be very slow.
>>
>>David Goldsmith                                           Apple Computer, Inc.
>>AppleLink: GOLDSMITH1    BIX: dgoldsmith         20525 Mariani Avenue, MS: 46B
>>UUCP: {nsc,dual,sun,voder,ucbvax!mtxinu}!apple!dgold       Cupertino, CA 95014
>>CSNET: dgold@apple.apple.com
>
>Jeez, Sun does it!  (e.g. compile your program with cc -fsoft).
>Are you admitting their superiority?

	I seriously doubt that Sun has written a 68881 emulator. A far
easier solution (and for more likely) ) is that they wrote a "smart"
floating-point library, that calls the FPCP if it's there, and otherwise
does floating-point math in software.

		-Rich

Rich Siegel
Symantec/THINK Technologies