Detecting the 80x87

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From: kjb Kendall Bennett
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 10:31

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How do I go about detecting the presence of the 8087 thru to the i487
Numeric co-processor chips? I already have written a routine to detect
all processor types, but I have got no idea about the NDP and I would
like to be able to autodetect this also...

Thanks,

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