Re: math chip for Dos server
From: Robert Poortinga <poorting_at_silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 16:55:03 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Jan17.165503.19165_at_bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 16:55:03 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Jan17.165503.19165_at_bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
In article <1992Jan16.232858.12433_at_newstand.syr.edu> kcameron_at_erc.cat.syr.edu (Ken Cameron) writes:
>programs would use the math chip if I installed one. BTW it will
^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
>be a 486 with 12 or 16 Ram, 200M disk, and 64k cache.
^^^
Save your money. A standard 486 already contains an embedded math coprocessor on the CPU chip. A 486SX has its coprocessor disabled.
I believe the math libraries that Oracle uses will use the numeric processor if one is found.
Bob Poortinga
(poorting_at_silver.ucs.indiana.edu)
Received on Fri Jan 17 1992 - 17:55:03 CET