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- From: andy@balr.com (Andrew Little)
- Subject: Re: Division by 0 crashes OS2/2.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep08.134945.5154@balr.com>
- Organization: BALR Corporation, Oak Brook, Illinois.
- References: <92Sep03.032755.21494@acs.ucalgary.ca> <1992Sep3.131306.13751@tc.cornell.edu> <92Sep04.024410.14613@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 13:49:45 GMT
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- In article <92Sep04.024410.14613@acs.ucalgary.ca> bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep3.131306.13751@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >
- >>>>>The following short program compiled with MS-FORTRAN 5.0 with
- >>>>>coprocessor crashes OS2 Ver. 2 on my machine:
- >>>>
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- >
- >I am inclined to believe the other poster (sorry, forgot his name)
- >who says it may be hardware-related.
- >
- >But in my case, it's not an issue of the known bug in some 486
- >motherboards: I am running this on a 386-25 (an old Mylex motherboard
- >that I have normally found quite reliable) and (*here it gets
- >interesting?*) an IIT FPU *not an Intel*.
- ^^^^^^^
- FYI, we have been able to crash our 386 Unix box (Interactive 3.2)
- with divide by zeros when we used this FPU, and don't have the same
- problem with Intel.
-
- Andy Little BALR Corporation
- andy@balr.com Software Solutions in Real Time
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