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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386BSD/NetBSD FPU emulator ? Date: 19 Aug 1993 16:59:03 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <250bgn$r96@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <24vc8k$ltr@itu1.sun.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: schizo.coe.montana.edu In article <24vc8k$ltr@itu1.sun.ac.za>, Andre Skarzynski <abs@cs.sun.ac.za> wrote: >Hi, > >I used to hack 386BSD, but have been away from it for some months now. >I remember that the Floating Point Unit emulator did not work very well. It >used to give incorrect answers. For example, if I run the following code: >My question: Has this been fixed? Or is everyone using 486DX's ? As I recall, the *bsd groups have received permission from the guy that wrote the Linux math emulator (which is apparently better than the *bsd ones) to include it in *bsd. The project was started, then aborted for unknown reasons. But if you wanted to pick it up and run with it, nobody would stop you :). -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu