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From: pickles@ottsun1.uucp (Clive Pickles)
Subject: Re: Will WP 5.1 use a co-processor?
Message-ID: <1991May14.205132.2536@ottsun1.uucp>
Sender: pickles@mpr.ca (Clive Pickles)
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Ottawa, ON, Canada
References: <isaacso.674093730@copper> <13596@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 May 91 20:51:32 GMT

In article <13596@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> ggurman@cory.Berkeley.EDUIn 
 article <isaacso.674093730@copper> isaacso@copper.ucs.indiana.edu 
 (Eric J. Isaacson) writes: writes:
>>coprocessor if one is present?  I'm drafting some preliminary
>>specifications for a new system and this will be very useful
>>information.
>From: ggurman@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Gail Gurman)
>Path: cory.Berkeley.EDU!ggurman
>
>Yes, it does.  In fact I really wish I had one.  It supposedly (since I
>don't have one I can't verify) increases the speed of various operations,
>including the snail-like "view document" feature.
>
>Gail

Sorry, no it doesn't.  Just got off the phone with a WordPerfect support
person, who confirmed this.  We have a lot of 386 machines here, and
the ones WITH a co-processor don't do anything faster than the ones
without (in WP). 

Clive



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