http://www.twisty.com/bandwagon/archives/2004/03/12/014746 Hitch your wagon to a chicken Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:35:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.twisty.com/bandwagon/archives/2004/03/12/014746/comment-page-1#comment-214 Tim Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://trunk.www.twisty.coronationroad/bandwagon/?p=203#comment-214 <p>Macintouch mentions John Neil was the creator of the SoftwareFPU. When I was a student sometime back in the early 1990s I bought my first Mac (a brand spanking new Macintosh LC – the LC didn't come with an integrated floating point unit; LC was short for "Low Cost" so it wasn't included). I've forgotton how useful SoftwareFPU was to me, it let me run all sort of cool AfterDark screensavers and probably other stuff like Fontographer and Illustrator (and did I mention AfterDark screensavers, which were indisputably cool). In short: I was proud to have SoftwareFPU in one of my original mac boot sequences. 'Nuff respect.</p> Macintouch mentions John Neil was the creator of the SoftwareFPU. When I was a student sometime back in the early 1990s I bought my first Mac (a brand spanking new Macintosh LC – the LC didn’t come with an integrated floating point unit; LC was short for “Low Cost” so it wasn’t included). I’ve forgotton how useful SoftwareFPU was to me, it let me run all sort of cool AfterDark screensavers and probably other stuff like Fontographer and Illustrator (and did I mention AfterDark screensavers, which were indisputably cool). In short: I was proud to have SoftwareFPU in one of my original mac boot sequences. ‘Nuff respect.

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