Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!isle From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Beware: MICROSOFT and 68882 Message-ID: <15023@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 14 Aug 89 22:18:00 GMT References: <850@orbit.UUCP> <2434@husc6.harvard.edu> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) Organization: Computer Resource Center, Dartmouth College Lines: 20 In article <2434@husc6.harvard.edu> kolodny@husc4.UUCP writes: >From article <850@orbit.UUCP>, by pj@pnet51.cts.com (Paul Jacoby): >> enable it's "Patch Excel" check box for Excel 1.5 to recognize the 68882 in >> the machine. Microsoftee's, care to explain? > >I realize I posted this before, but in case you missed it, Excel 1.5 will >NOT recognize the math co-processor on 68030 machines running system 6.xx. The patch for Excel 1.5 to recognize the 68882 was in MacWeek many months ago. I still have it on disk somewhere, so if you have an '882 in your Mac and want Excel to recognize it, request the patch by e-mail. If there's overwhelming requests, I'll post it to the net. (Otherwise, I'll mail it out individually.) Ken Ken Hancock '90 | E-mail: (BITNET/UUCP/INTERNET) Computer Resource Center Consultant | isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER? I don't get paid enough to worry about disclaimers.