[comp.sys.ibm.pc] MS Quick BASIC & 8087/80287

glidden@morgoth.UUCP (02/03/87)

Does anyone know how to make Microsoft's Quick BASIC compile code which will
use the 8087 / 80287 math coprocessors in the IBM PC's?

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wb8foz@ncoast.UUCP (02/12/87)

> Article <331@morgoth.UUCP> From: glidden@morgoth.UUCP (Ken A. Glidden)

# Does anyone know how to make Microsoft's Quick BASIC compile code which will
# use the 8087 / 80287 math coprocessors in the IBM PC's?

I heard Bill Gates at The Capitol PC Users Group on the 10th.
He mentioned the outpouring of requests for 8087 support.
I do not remember his exact words, but my impression
was 
	Real Soon Now



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