fpa in a 4/280

[Howard C. Hart]

In article <715 at brazos.Rice.edu> hudgens at ray.met.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 91, message 13 of 16

>fpa in the (old sun3) /usr/etc/fpa directory.  Is there any way to use
>this board in a 4/280, or should we pull it and try to barter with it?  

Sell it. The latest Sun 4/280s come complete with the new FPU2 coprocessor
for floating point arithmetic. We benchmarked it at roughly twice as fast
as the fpa for those types of operations. 


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