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From: mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can cpu "I386_CPU" be removed for a 486?
Date: 02 Sep 1993 19:43:54 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu's message of Thu, 2 Sep 1993 12:51:40 GMT
In article <1993Sep2.125140.22053@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs) writes:
since I am running a 486DX. I'm assuming I also do not need
the emulation code. ~~~~~
Theoretically, yes. (Or, that was the idea, and it seems to
work for us. B-)) What you're really referring to is the option
`MATH_EMULATE', though. Some 486s do not have floating point.
I thought DX implied floating point, that's why I spent the extra
cash. Have I made a boo-boo? :)
Right, but `I486_CPU' != `486DX'. The original article seemed to be
confusing `I386_CPU' with `MATH_EMULATE'.