HP 98568A Installation Instruction page 91

HP 98635A
Floating Point Math Card
Description and Support
The Floating Point Math Card (HP 98635A) enhances the performance of
your computer and supports the proposed IEEE standard for binary floating
point numbers. With this card, computational performance can be increased
up to three times. Actual performance is highly dependent on the application,
language, and operating system.
HP 98635A Floating Point Math Card
Series 300 HP-UX Operating System Support
on Release with Model
5.0
or later
320
NOTE:
Do
not
use this Math card with models
other than the
320.
Installation Procedure
Note
The Floating Point Math Card may be installed in the
HP 9888A Bus Expander, but with reduced performance.
Installation in an HP 98568A Backplane Expander will not
reduce performance.
L Turn your computer off.
2. Remove the painted cover plates from the back of your computer until you
find an empty slot. Do not remove the silver cover plates on the bottom of a
Series 300 computer.
3. Select an empty odd-numbered slot for the Floating Point Math Card if
one is available; otherwise use an even-numbered slot. (Slots are numbered
from the top down, so the top-most slot is number 1, the next slot down is
number 2, etc.)
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