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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Beware: MICROSOFT FLAME
Message-ID: <1989Aug9.225924.9379@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 9 Aug 89 22:59:24 GMT
References: <2409@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <2409@husc6.harvard.edu> kolodny@husc4.UUCP writes:
#>I don't usually flame about software companies, but I just had an
#>experience at the MacWorld Industry Day which really angered me.  As a
#>Microsoft Excel 1.5 owner who just purchased a Mac IIcx, I noticed that my
#>version of Excel did not print the "running 6888x coprocessor" message
#>which it prints upon startup on the Mac IIs here at work.  I figured that
#>the version of Excel did not print out the message because it found a 68882
#>instead of a 68881, but it used it nonetheless.  When I asked a product

I'm running Excel 1.5 on my Mac II in which I installed a 68882.
Excel reports that it is using the 68881 on startup. I conclude
that it only checks to see if there is a coprocessor but doesn't
really look to see what kind. Whether any of the newer versions
will do so or not, who knows. Perhaps they assume the type
of coprocessor from the type of machine.

Steve Goldfield