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This driver will will turn on the OS2 floating point emulator if it detects a Pentium with a bad math co-processor. This is provided as a device driver that directs application floating point instructions to be executed by the available emulators including OS/2's built-in emulator for OS/2 applications, the emulators either built into DOS or Windows applications or the floating point emulator shipped as part of WINOS2 (OS/2's Windows support).  
This driver will turn on the OS2 floating point emulator if it detects a Pentium with a bad math co-processor. This is provided as a device driver that directs application floating point instructions to be executed by the available emulators including OS/2's built-in emulator for OS/2 applications, the emulators either built into DOS or Windows applications or the floating point emulator shipped as part of WINOS2 (OS/2's Windows support).


==Syntax==
  BASEDEV=586NPX.SYS  
  BASEDEV=586NPX.SYS  
;Versions
:1994-12-12


==Links==
==Links==
* [http://www.os2site.com/sw/drivers/cpu/586npx.zip]
* {{FileLink|586NPX_586-00.zip}} - (1994-01-29)


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Latest revision as of 03:17, 8 August 2025

This driver will turn on the OS2 floating point emulator if it detects a Pentium with a bad math co-processor. This is provided as a device driver that directs application floating point instructions to be executed by the available emulators including OS/2's built-in emulator for OS/2 applications, the emulators either built into DOS or Windows applications or the floating point emulator shipped as part of WINOS2 (OS/2's Windows support).

Syntax

BASEDEV=586NPX.SYS 

Links