Re: Division by 0 crashes OS2/2.0

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From: Dov Bai-MSI Visitor
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 22:10

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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.
>

The Coprocessor that crashes OS/2 2.0 on my machine is Cyrix.


>Andy Little                    BALR Corporation
>andy@balr.com                  Software Solutions in Real Time
>

Dov Bai

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