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From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Detection of 8087 chip
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Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 13:28:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 23 13:28:09 1987
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What means are used to test for the presence of an 8087 coprocessor?
I just received Vers. 3.23 of PCTOOLS and its System Information
Services told me I had no 8087.  I have several other such items
of commercial software, e.g. Microway, MSC V3 and V4 which have no
difficulty determining that I do, in fact, have that chip.  The
speed of execution of transcendental math proves it, furthermore.

I remember seeing something on this subject in PC Mag but haven't
been able to find which issue this was discussed.

My PC is a Leading Edge Model M (Mitsubishi).

Forrest Gehrke