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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.mach
Subject: Re: Floating-point emulation (was Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd)
Date: 15 Oct 1993 05:39:00 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: wollman@aix1.emba.uvm.edu's message of Thu, 14 Oct 1993 19:32:21 GMT


In article <1993Oct14.193221.19391@emba.uvm.edu>
wollman@aix1.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:

   We (FreeBSD) would really like to use the Intel-written emulator
   provided in binary form with Mach 3.0, [...]

We (NetBSD) would also like to, and in fact my recollection was that
it was one of the NetBSD people who first suggested it.

(Ahem.)

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