Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!mtune!icus!mozart!rosalia From: rosalia@mozart.UUCP (Mark Galassi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Opening the 3B1 Message-ID: <143@mozart.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 87 04:57:08 GMT References: <7517@alice.UUCP> <629@umbc3.UMD.EDU> Reply-To: rosalia@mozart.UUCP (Mark Galassi) Organization: Mark Galassi Research, Stony Brook, New York Lines: 27 >>Also, I'd like to know if you really can add a 68881 FPU. > >Mee Too! There isn't a socket on my mother-board for one, so if it exists, its >a card. Has anyone actually Seen on or gotten a firm price for the thing? I'd >love to do slick graphics on the thing if I could! Back in September, when I was trying to get someone to sell me a 3B1 at the fire-sale price, I talked to hundreds of AT&T hot-lin people. Most of them were twits, and didn't know what on earth a floating point processor was, but one finally told me the tragic story. I sort of quote him (I don't remember exactly, but close). "Oh, that was really a tragic story: we had a board with a 68881 designed and built and it worked beautifully, but then someone in 'upper management' decided that there wasn't a marketplace for it." If the manager at AT&T who made that decision reads this newsgroup (probably not), I would like to tell you that you had a bad idea. In any case, even though there *IS* a part number for it (!), AT&T does not sell it. Maybe someone who works for AT&T could find a few thousand of them thrown away in some corner and distribute them to the rest of us :-). -- Mark Galassi ...!mozart!rosalia { These opinions are mine and should be everybody else's :-) }