Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:55:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? Message-ID: <199907122055.QAA80307@misha.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907121625240.50180-100000@janus.syracuse.net> from "Brian F. Feldman" at "Jul 12, 1999 04:26:06 pm"
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Brian F. Feldman once wrote: > > I suggested about half a year ago that we should officially > > desupport non-FPU configurations in 4.0. Unfortunately, my > > resolution was soundly defeated. > > Why shouldn't we? Noone uses machines without FPUs anymore. What > non-ancient CPU doesn't have an FPU? And we're talking about the i386 > family here... "One should NEVER, EVER generalize". My laptop, for example, is a 386SX25 with 8Mb of RAM. Minicom, fetchmail, sendmail, and elm work just peachy on it. To answer someone else's question about the OS version on it -- it is 3.2-BETA as of beginning of May, pretty recent... Made by Digital (may they RIP) it is quite reliable, although the on-board battery is no more, and I have to re-set the time on it after the external battery runs out. I'd rather see the FPU emulation remains available, although, by the time 4.0 becomes -stable (when?), I _may_ retire the poor thing. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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