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Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 17:25:09 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: help! FPU emulation worries... (RHIDE?)
In-Reply-To: <337b8ef1.sandmann@clio.rice.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970518172251.16797D-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Thu, 15 May 1997, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> > Or is there any way for me to simulate the software FPU even when
> > I have a 486 DX?
> 
> SET 387=n

Last time I tried this on a 486DX, I couldn't make it behave as if there
were no FPU.  I wrote a small program that was linked without an emulator,
and expected it to barf when I set 387=n and rename emu387.dxe, but it
happily ran to completion... 

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