BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 04-18-92 (15:19) Number: 117
From: DONN BLY Refer#: NONE
To: BEN KAHN Recvd: NO
Subj: Re: Number Conversions Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
> DB> The problems are compounded by the fact that QB will use a math
> DB> coprocessor if it is installed in the machine, so when it comes
> DB> to handling floating point numbers at execution time the program
> That is why I use PowerBasic. I can tell it that a
> coprocessor will always be present or tell it it will
> never be. That way, I don't have to deal with all the
> checks and stuff. I can also, of coarse, let it detect.
If that is your reason for using PowerBasic, you picked
pretty poor one, because while the default in QB is to use
auto-detect floating point, it is just as configurable and
you can compile math-coprocessor-only versions if you
like. Nothing against PowerBasic, but it offers nothing in
the way of coprocessor support that Microsoft hasn't
offered since before PowerBasic was ever released.
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* Origin: The Loft *HST/DS/V42bis* [NC, SDS] (1:236/7)
