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To: dumbmoney who wrote (35422)8/2/1998 9:18:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573902
 
The amazing thing is that the message Paul posted makes it very clear that its author was just speculating about the whole single/double precision thing. And the result is blather like this:

"For graphical functions, both would work - but the much higher resolution of the graphical image, generated with double precision FPU, will be more realistic."

What a load.

Kevin

PS For those that aren't already aware, HIGH END CAD generally means Unix and workstations. Xeon can't quite cut it--sorry. Wait for Merced.



To: dumbmoney who wrote (35422)8/2/1998 9:54:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573902
 
dumbmoney - Re: ", I see where the rumor got started. It's still wrong."

Prove it.

Paul