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From: ed@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Ed Federmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Can MINIX take advantage of a math co-processor?
Message-ID: <3079@iitmax.IIT.EDU>
Date: 6 Dec 89 22:13:06 GMT
Reply-To: ed@iitmax.iit.edu (Ed Federmeyer)
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
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If I install an 8087 math co-processor in my PC, and re-compile the MINIX
kernel with the C compiler that comes with MINIX, will it be able to take
advantage of the 8087, or does the official MINIX C compiler just ignore
'x87's completely?

I also heard references (I think in that file "MINIX INFO" that gets posted
every once in a while) to a Pascal compiler for MINIX... Does MINIX come with
a Pascal compiler?
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