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From: wunder@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP825 math 15x SLOWER than 825
Message-ID: <920004@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Apr 88 18:12:16 GMT
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Organization: HP Software Dev Environments - Palo Alto, CA
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   But for HP to answer: shouldn't the 825 gone through some sort of
   check at boot time and told us if something was wrong? 

   Roger N. Clark

That question has already come up internally.  The system already
does the check -- note that it automatically decided to emulate
the FP stuff when it noticed that the FP unit was broken.

Obviously, the system should log an error.

wunder