In message <199603181705.MAA08330@paycheck.cygnus.com>,
	"Mark W. Eichin" writes:
>out of curiousity - does anyone have IBM RT's without FPU's? (There
>were three FPU's for the early model RT, but the only one that IBM
>kept shipping [and the only one that actually *worked* grr] was the
>68881 based one, if I recall correctly... so the m68k FPE might
>actually be useful there...)

Not to argue with your experiences, but my Advanced Floating Point Unit
has always performed dramatically better then the on-CPU card 68881.

Of course, I'm running AIX, have the fpu enabled in my kernel, and use
the floating point libraries for the system compiler if I want to bench
floating point.  GCC produces crap for floating point on the RT.

-- 
Jason Downs
downsj@teeny.org  --> teeny.org: Free Software for a Free Internet <--
http://www.teeny.org/

			  Big Brother... Just say No.
	      No to unlimited wiretaps.  No to enforced `decency'.