Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/08/02/11:00:08
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> > The function is called by npxsetup.c, same directory. It checks
> > the environment variable 387 to see if you set it to "N", but
> > unfortunately not, if you set it to "Y". Charles, is that not something
> > to change?
>
> Setting it to Y causes hard crashes (taking out Windows, for example) on
> boxes I tried without FPUs for a couple of reasons.
That's what anybody would expect. Exactly the same behaviour as TC in
those old 286/287 days. So what?
> We need to find out
> why code directly out of the intel manual doesn't work on this environment,
> if we need to set something else first, for example.
Because the guys developing NextGen didn't read it?
>
> In any case, none of these things get fixed unless someone wants to spend
> the time to work through them - I'm glad to help but it works on everything
> I have access to.
>
Odds that a customer will buy a NextGen 586 _and_ I can keep him
quite until I found out how the CPU behaves are pretty low.
Tom
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