Don't ever believe them: I was taking Pascal, and had just switched from a Prime computer to a PC for a large program. I had to finish some major part over the

Don't ever believe them: I was taking Pascal, and had just switched from a Prime computer to a PC for a large program. I had to finish some major part over the weekend, so I went to my brothers house. He had a co-processor, and Turbo-87 was hell of faster, so back at school, I snuck into the physics lab w/ 8087s and programmed there. When I got my own machine a few years later, I went out of my way to get a 8087 turbo. Lotus 1-2-3 and Turbo pascal ran amazingly fast. Six years later I got a hand me down 33Mhz 386. Upgraded the ram, the processor to 40Mhz, and got the co-processor. (ITT 87-II) again, with the math co processor, amazing speed. Finally got a hand me down 486 to replace the 386, and KaChing! It was not a 486 it was a Pentium Over drive w/ co-processor. Got into AutoCAD at that time, and ... people in the lab were complaining that there were no co-processors. I could not tell them that it ran much faster on my machine at home because they would know where I got the software.