Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!billc
From: billc@percival.UUCP (William J. Coldwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: (none)
Message-ID: <1434@percival.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 88 12:11:04 GMT
References: <6018@louie.udel.EDU> <533@boing.UUCP>
Reply-To: billc@percival.UUCP (William J. Coldwell)
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Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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In article <533@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
In article <6018@louie.udel.EDU> CHUCHEM%BGUEE.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
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=I subsequently purchased and installed the MC68881 coprocessor and
[stuff deleted]
=anyone have any advice on how I can get the math co-processor to show some
=signs of life?  What can I check?  So far EVERYTHING I have tried could
=not in any way coax any response out of the 68881.

>CMI should have supplied an autoconfig program that you install in the
>expansion drawer. This program should verify that the 68881 is installed
>and create a 'resource' and add it to the system list of resources.

=Dave Chuchem
=chuchem@bguee.bitnet

>Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
>{uunet!cbmvax|pyramid}!amiga!boing!dale

The PA software that is currently out, will check for the existance
of a 68881, and install the MathIEEE.resource properly (as mentioned).
You may have an older version of the software, and may get the latest
version mailed to you or off of the pay services.  The software does
not auto-config, but may in the future, if I get around to it.  The
new software also supports locking of the '881 so that you may have
more than 1 task use it without barfing.  Ther current release version
is 2.5, and you probably have REVISION 7.0 (the first release of the
software before I got ahold of it).

If you need the new software, then mail Lilliane at CMI:
...tektronix!sequent!blowpig!lillian
and she'll get you squared away. It is available on PLINK also.

Sorry for any inconvience.  The new disk has demos to test the '881
out for ya also.

Bill

{Dale, anything need to be changed to work with 1.4?}


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