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From: runge@physics.llnl.gov (Karl Runge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FP bug fixed in NetBSD?
Date: 7 Jul 1993 20:36:54 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Reply-To: runge@physics.llnl.gov (Karl Runge)
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Hi, in 386BSD 0.1 I found it was possible to crash the machine if I had 
several programs performing floating point operations running at the
same time (in fact I crashed ref.tfs.com once this way! :-o) I believe this
is the 386BSD Bug   KERN009. Is it fixed in NetBSD 0.8?  If not, any rough
idea when it will be solved? 

Thanks, 

Karl (runge@physics.llnl.gov)