Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!roy From: roy@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy J. Mongiovi) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Detection of the Math Co-processor Message-ID: <206@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Sep-84 10:23:41 EDT Article-I.D.: gitpyr.206 Posted: Thu Sep 13 10:23:41 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 03:41:17 EDT Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Lines: 14 Well, As far as I can tell, the only way to detect the presence/absence of the coprocessor is to read the system board switch(es) and determine if a coprocessor is configured or not. So as a guess, I would say that the AT switches read differently. I know that the XT reads in an entirely different fashion than the PC, so there seems to be a precident.... -- Roy J. Mongiovi. Office of Computing Services. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332 Phone: (404) 894-6163, (404) 894-4660 [messages] ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,masscomp,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!roy ...!{rlgvax,sb1,uf-cgrl,unmvax,ut-sally}!gatech!gitpyr!roy