Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:18:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: green@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, cracauer@cons.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? Message-ID: <199907122218.AAA04241@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <21270.931811581@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jul 12, 1999 10:33: 1 pm"
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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote ... > 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. www.tcja.nl was an ancient 386/40 until a couple of months ago. Low traffic Web servers don't (generally) need an FPU. No/low budget outfits run hardware most people on this list would give away for free (or thrash altogether). It is a M$-ism to discard a complete line of machines with each next release... Just my Dfl 0.02 -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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