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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>
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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)
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