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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 and Math Coprocessor
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.183506.28854@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <SCANNON.53.728064267@novell.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:35:06 GMT
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- In article <SCANNON.53.728064267@novell.com> SCANNON@novell.com (Steve Cannon) writes:
- >Does OS/2 2.0 take advantage of the fact that a math coprocessor is
- >installed on systems running a CPU < 486?
- >If not, I'd like to see IBM make a version available that does. Unless I'm
- >way off base, it seems like a simple recompile of the code with the proper
- >switches set could do the trick.
-
- OS/2 itself does not use the math coprocessor, nor would it benefit
- from it. Applications, however, can make use of it.
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