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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
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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
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