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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 30 2013 @ 07:09 PM EDT |
The 68LC040 was very fast compared to the 68030, and even floating-point
operations performed through emulation ran at a decent speed compared to the
older machine. Not nearly as fast as on a 68040, but quite fast.
The
biggest problem if you owned a Macintosh LC with this processor was
Microsoft.
When the very first Macintosh with a coprocessor was released, they
added
support in Excel by checking "does this computer have a 68020
processor". Which
obviously failed when the next Mac had a 68030 processor.
Which is _not_ a
68020. So they changed to "does this computer have a 68020 or
higher
processor". Which made Excel crash on the 68LC040. What made this
particularly
infurating was that the same operating system call returned _both_
the CPU
model _and_ the FPU model, so all they had to check was whether the
computer
had an FPU. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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