I wondered if it was a hardware fault, and the fpu is allowing enough electrons to flow where they need to be.
Although the infocom 'boot' step suggests a race condition somewhere? Or some register not being properly set by the os.
Although the infocom 'boot' step suggests a race condition somewhere? Or some register not being properly set by the os.
To be sure, the author should remove and reinstall the coprocessor 10 times, testing after each. :)
When I pushed it into the socket it made such a loud “ker chunk” noise that I wouldn’t want to constantly pull out and reseat these chips. Especially since I don’t have the Intel “rake” like puller I had to use a pair of card edge blanks to gently rock it out of the socket.
Although I do appreciate the 10x humor of it.
It’s weird that so many people focus on the software, which runs perfectly fine in emulation, but seem to lose their minds that an $8,000 machine from 1987 shipped with a buggy CPU…
Hopefully this tbh t will encourage someone out there with a 386 to try to replicate this.