Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!nsc!voder!lynx!m5 From: m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: 387 literature Summary: Wanted: useful, error-free NPX book Message-ID: <4230@lynx.UUCP> Date: 16 Aug 88 23:52:51 GMT Reply-To: m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally) Distribution: na Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc, Campbell CA Lines: 17 Are there any useful (i.e., not useLESS, like the Intel books) books about the 80[23]87 numeric coprocessor? I need a book that has a decent summary of each instruction and what it does to the stack, along with some code for dealing with trancendentals with restricted range (like FPTAN on the 287). Actually, I can deal with the goofy trancendentals, but it would be nice to know, for example, whether FPREM leaves ST and ST(1) both alive, thus requiring a FSTP and an FPOP (what?!? No FPOP? gee, whiz; do I really have to FSTP to a dummy location?). Come to think of it, the old 8087 book was OK; I never had to really use it though. -- Mike McNally of Lynx Real-Time Systems uucp: lynx!m5 (maybe pyramid!voder!lynx!m5 if lynx is unknown)