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From: cth_co@tekno.chalmers.se (CHRISTER OLSSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for floating point processor emulation software
Message-ID: <4426@tekno.chalmers.se>
Date: 4 Dec 89 13:58:33 GMT
References: <5.UUL1.3#5248@asyst.UUCP>
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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In article <5.UUL1.3#5248@asyst.UUCP>, ksb@asyst.UUCP (K. S. Bhaskar) writes:
> I have a package that assumes that an Intel floating point co-processor (FPP)
> is plugged into the appropriate socket on a PC, and I want to run it on a PC
> without such a beast.  Does anyone know of an emulation package that traps the
> error that (presumably) occurs when an FPP opcode is generated and then
> emulates the instruction and places the results in the correct place?  In
> other words, the package needn't be modified, and wouldn't even know that no
> FPP existed (other than perhaps re-linking, although something that operates
> as a TSR would be even better).  Any other advice would be welcome too.
I've seen one emulator based on Turbo-C's floating point emulation routines.

I think it comes from comp.binaries.ibm.pc in this summer and/or was available
from simtel20.

I tested the emulator with some programs and some works, other don't.