dougm@pnet51.cts.com (Doug Mcintyre) (07/19/89)
Yup you'd be re-inventing the wheel by doing a 68881 card. And
probably about $50 more than you can buy the present one for..
What you are looking for is a FPE (Floating point engine). It is a 68881
running at 12MHz. It includes patches to SANE so that you can use it with all
programs. And Byteworks supports it with their languages so that you can calle
it directly..
Right now it costs $229 from the Byteworks. I forget if this is a special
offer or not still.. The lowest cost I've seen on the 12mhz 68881 chips was
around $199 for single ones the last time I checked, so it is a pretty good
deal..
The byteworks address is..
4700 Irving Blvd. NW suite 207
Albuquerque, NM 87114
*505/898-8183
They don't make them. They just sell them. I think it was inovated systems
that makes them, but I don't know their address off hand..
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