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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?

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

	I'm one of those bad things that happen to good people.



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