| From: | Neil Williams |
| Date: | 21 Mar 2001 at 16:15:35 |
| Subject: | Re: Apollo Accelerator |
At 21/03/01 12:24:00, you wrote:
>I currently have an Apollo 60-75LC, the one without a FPU.
>If I bought an Apollo 60 with an FPU would I notice any significant
>differences?
Things will be slower.
>I don't play games, I use packages like Wordworth, Turbocalc,
>Drawstudio, Voyager, Microdot etc.
You can use the FPU for better quality image or MPEGA decoding. Speed
would only be better where you're doing integer maths to produce high
quality floating point results. E.g., MPEGA is slower in the FPU version
but the audio quality is better.
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