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From: jtara@m2-net.UUCP (Jon Tara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 CoProcessor Question
Summary: AMI BIOS can fake a coprocessor
Message-ID: <1739@m2-net.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 88 07:39:10 GMT
References: <36300021@iuvax>
Organization: M-NET, Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <36300021@iuvax>, bose@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu writes:
> 
> I have a program that is compiled for a floating point co-processor.  I don't
> have a co-processor on my 386, and was wondering is there any way to fake
> out the program into thinking there is one, and perform the calculations in
> software?
> 
> Speed is not critical, I just want to see this program run.

The AMI 386 BIOS has an option to fake a coprocessor.  I haven't tried
it, so I don't know how fast or accurate it is.
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