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Re: Division by 0 crashes OS2/2.0

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From: Dov Bai-MSI Visitor
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 22:40
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In article <9209091933.AA21809@SPUNKY.CS.NYU.EDU> figueroa@SPUNKY.CS.NYU.EDU (Samuel A. Figueroa) writes:

>
>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?

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!

Dov
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