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From: marc@stingray.austin.ibm.com (Marc J. Stephenson/140000;1C-22)
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Subject: Re: Floating Point Processer not accessed?
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Date: 2 Aug 90 22:17:42 GMT
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You sure you got that right?  When the command 'fptype'
tells you that it is using software emulation, then that
matches the configuration for a ROMP (not APC) without
a floating point accelerator.  There are 5 configurations:
   ROMP, no FPA = software emulation
   ROMP, FPA I = FPA I
   ROMP, FPA II = Advanced floating point accelerator
   APC, no FPA or FPA I = MC68881 (overrides FPA I, if there)
   APC, FPA II = Advanced floating point with DMA (best combo)

Run dbx on anything (even /etc/passwd), run the 'registers'
command, and see how many floating point registers show up.
If it shows 32, you've got an FPA II, 8 + status = MC68881,
7 + status = FPA I or software emulation.

I don't understand your diagnostics results.

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Marc Stephenson (marc@stingray.austin.ibm.com)
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