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From: RFY630@MAINE.BITNET (Chris Winne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Floating Point Processer not accessed?
Message-ID: <90218.143653RFY630@MAINE.BITNET>
Date: 6 Aug 90 18:36:53 GMT
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Organization: University of Maine System
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I'm making some progress, but it is still a bit puzzling:
 
 
 
The machines DOES have an APC card with a Floating Point accelerator.  I
 
have discovered that if I check out the floating point accelerator with
diagnostics the command fptype will return the proper configuration (it
may be all I have to do is load diagnostics, but I havn't slimmed down
my testing that far yet), i.e. Floating Point Type = APC Card with
MC68881.  However this seems to be dropped after awhile (sometimes when
PCSIM bombs, otherwise after normal shutdown).  When software emulation
is indicated, dbx shows 7 + status floating point registers, when APC
Card with MC68881 is indicated, dbx shows 8 + status floating point
registers.  The file /etc/master shows floating = hardware nomatter what
fptype returns.  I know this seems strange, but that's the way it is.