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- Subject: Re: Division by 0 crashes OS2/2.0
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:40:48 GMT
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- In article <9209091933.AA21809@SPUNKY.CS.NYU.EDU> figueroa@SPUNKY.CS.NYU.EDU (Samuel A. Figueroa) writes:
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- >
- >I am interested in floating-point arithmetic in general. I am wondering
- >if this behavior can occur with Intel math coprocessors. (Someone has
- >already mentioned that it can occur on poorly-designed 486 motherboards.)
- >If not, is it due to a bug in IIT and Cyrix chips, and if so, has/will it
- >be corrected? What other brands of coprocessors exhibit this behavior?
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- Intel, I am afraid will join in in OS/2 2.1 -:)
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- >Sam Figueroa (figueroa@cs.nyu.edu)
- >This is not a .signature virus.
- >Do NOT copy me into your .signature file!
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- Dov
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