fsdal1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (11/06/90)
Has anyone had any difficulties running the following hardware with uPort sys V/AT ? 80287 coprocessor NEAT chipset super VGA adaptors (Orchid prodesigner) Extended keyboards (KEA powerstation) I am seeming to have more trouble transferring files and compiling them than anyone else I write to, not to mention the difficulties I have had with DOSmerge. Don Levinson, fsdal1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu
fsdal1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (11/13/90)
In article <1990Nov5.142101.1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu>, fsdal1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu writes: > Has anyone had any difficulties running the following hardware with uPort > sys V/AT ? > > 80287 coprocessor I removed my 80287 chip and now I am able to compile Pcomm, it seems that the 287 was interfering with the compile of x_rcv.c and x_send.c modules.
nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn) (11/16/90)
In article <1990Nov13.091201.1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu> fsdal1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu writes: >In article <1990Nov5.142101.1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu>, fsdal1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu writes: >> Has anyone had any difficulties running the following hardware with uPort >> sys V/AT ? >> >> 80287 coprocessor > >I removed my 80287 chip and now I am able to compile Pcomm, it seems that >the 287 was interfering with the compile of x_rcv.c and x_send.c modules. It's been a long time since I ran uport V/AT, but I did at one time run it on a board with 80386 and 80287 (that's right). ^ It ran fine... in fact, at one point it was necessary: I don't remember how it came to pass, but at one point unix got strange ideas about whether a math coprocessor was installed. The effect was errors in code (like awk) that used real arithmetic. There's a kernel variable that identifies the presence of a coprocessor, and it was getting set incorrectly at boot-up. It's referred to somewhere in the docs, but I don't recall its name. You might as an experiment try code doing real arithmetic... though I don't see how that should be an issue in your compilation. -- Norman Kohn | ...ddsw1!nvk Chicago, Il. | days/ans svc: (312) 650-6840 | eves: (312) 373-0564