> what good a math coprocessor would do for a network > card.
Nothing, but since it's the only way to install an FPU into the LC short of soldering in a socket where Apple originally intended to put one, (Or is that only the LCII?) that's where the FPU has to go if you run any apps that need one. Same story for the IIsi, no FPU and no place to even solder a socket, so the IIsi NuBus adaptor and many other IIsi PDS cards often included an FPU.
So, you guys mean something like this one?
http://www.macvizion.com/EBAP/Processors%20%2F%20Accelerators/Misc%20-%20Motorola%20FPU.JPG
I checked my Asant� card and it does not have the 68882 chip, but it looks to me like it has the socket. That's cool- I never would've guessed that 3rd party card manufacturers would think to add the FPU socket to a card that couldn't use it, but the motherboard itself could. Kinda like two upgrades on one card.
Thanks again.
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