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- From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor)
- Subject: Re: Division by 0 crashes OS2/2.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.221046.1332@tc.cornell.edu>
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- References: <1992Sep3.131306.13751@tc.cornell.edu> <92Sep04.024410.14613@acs.ucalgary.ca> <1992Sep08.134945.5154@balr.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:10:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep08.134945.5154@balr.com> andy@balr.com (Andrew Little) writes:
- >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:
- >>>>>
- >
- >>
- >>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.
- >
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- The Coprocessor that crashes OS/2 2.0 on my machine is Cyrix.
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- >Andy Little BALR Corporation
- >andy@balr.com Software Solutions in Real Time
- >
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- Dov Bai
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