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Date: | Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:54:51 -0400 |
Message-Id: | <199909301354.JAA01030@envy.delorie.com> |
From: | DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> |
To: | eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il |
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Zaretskii on Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:45:34 +0200 (IST)) | |
Subject: | Re: __dpmi_set_coprocessor_emulation |
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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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