> This makes me very much wonder whether it ever worked on a LC040 system.
> Can anybody confirm this? A few positive reports would help me, too.

The FPE, AFAIK, has always been at least somewhat broken for the LC040.
LC040s without the hardware bugs will still sometimes "randomly" cause
applications to core dump.

-allen

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