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- From: boyd@apple.com (Scott Boyd)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Error of Type 90?
- Message-ID: <boyd-150992003200@kip2-43.apple.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 07:32:49 GMT
- References: <5797@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
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- Organization: Apple Computer Inc.
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- In article <5797@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, macman+@pitt.edu (Dennis H
- Lippert) wrote:
- >
- > Hi all.
- >
- > A good friend of mine has a new IIsi (9/80, running 7.0) and has problems
- > with several applications (ArchiDraw, some math package whose name escapes
- > me, and a few others) "unexpectedly quitting because an error of type 90
- > occurred".
- >
- > Mathematica will not run on this machine because it has no coprocessor, and
- > I'm wondering if this might be the same problem... except without as good
- > an error handler as Mathematica.
- >
- > Anybody know what a type 90 error is? If so, reply to me at macman+@pitt.edu.
- > (unfortunately, the classes have again started, so I can't read news often
- > anymore)
-
- You've hit on it perfectly. Bad error handling.
-
- Error 90 = An FPU instruction was executed on a machine that doesn't have
- one.
-
- scott
- boyd@apple.com
-