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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!


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