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- From: ADUNSMUI@TOROLAB6.VNET.IBM.COM (Al Dunsmuir)
- Message-ID: <19920729.081410.868@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 11:04:28 EDT
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: POV ray 1.0 (DOS) under OS/2
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- Organization: IBM Canada Laboratory Ltd, Toronto, CANADA
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- References: <1992Jul27.144730.24096@dragon.acadiau.ca> <1992Jul28.061954.8122@sol.UVic.CA> <Bs3z3J.B37@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- In <1992Jul29.031020.16028@sol.UVic.CA> This space for rent writes:
- >In article <Bs3z3J.B37@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> ychung@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung) writes:
- >>In article <1992Jul28.061954.8122@sol.UVic.CA> gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This space for rent) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Jul27.144730.24096@dragon.acadiau.ca> 890560p@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trevor Porter) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >>Are you sure VNPX.SYS is a coprocessor emulator? I tried it and it gives
- >>me the error even before it loads up the PoVRay exec.
- >>Even a separate 387 emulator doesn't help even though sysinfo says I have
- >>387 installed.
- >
- >I searched the help file on VNPX, and it calls it a Numeric Processor Extension
- >(80387). Sounds like a co-pro emulator to me, but it doesn't seem to work.
- >Maybe I am using it wrong?
- >--
- >________________________________________________________________________
- >| Gord Webster | Be cool or be cast out - Rush |
- >| University of Victoria | OS/2, it's curtains for Windows |
- >| Victoria, B.C., Canada | Oxygen is for losers - Red Dwarf |
- >
-
- The V*.SYS files typically are used to virtualize a device (share it
- between VDMs and the rest of OS/2 by saving/restoring status/regs, etc).
- I believe the numeric coprocessor must actually exist for it to work in
- a VDM. It is, however, emulated for native OS/2 code if not installed.
-
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