Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:31:39 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> 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: <378B077B.DBA3C534@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907121625240.50180-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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"Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > 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... And 486SX. Anyway, I still hear of people with such machines. As a matter of fact, I caught some flak when I made the loader require fpu for a while. So, it *will* affect some people. I see no cost in continuing support, so why remove it? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org I'm one of those bad things that happen to good people. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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