Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!virtech!cpcahil From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Pic on ISC's 386/ix 2.0.2 locks system hard. Message-ID: <1989Nov28.014451.4337@virtech.uucp> Date: 28 Nov 89 01:44:51 GMT References: Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc. Lines: 20 In article , larry@focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson) writes: > I'm pretty sure that Jetroff is not the trouble, running pic alone on > the command line still causes trouble (ie. pic y.tmp). But, > what does seem to be a part of the trouble is the 387! On another > machine here, one without the 387, but otherwise the much the same, > pic runs fine. It sounds like you are running into the old 386 problem with the 387 in multitasking environments. There is a software solution that can be configured into the kernel (can't remember exactly what it is named). Several board manufacturers have come up with a $100 hardware solution. Not sure how successfull that is. (Bell Tech, now Intel, was one of them). -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+