Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:33:01 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? Message-ID: <21270.931811581@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:26:06 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907121625240.50180-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907121625240.50180-100000@janus.syracuse.net>, "Bria >> 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... A lot of 386 machines are being built into places where people will never know they are. We should not kill that market. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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