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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:54:51 -0400
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The MP flag enables the hardware interface to the FPU for 386s, and
enables emulating the WAIT instruction.  Without it, WAIT won't cause
an emulation exception.  At least, that's what I think the manual is
trying to tell me.

The 486 manual says MP should always be set.

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