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From: jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386bsd Xfree
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Date: 15 Sep 92 17:57:21 GMT
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There's no need to recompile since the math emulation is done through
software traps when FPU instructions are found. If you have a 486 or a
387 then you never get an FPU trap and the FPU instruction is handled by
the hardware.

-Jim.
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	***  James Tsillas  jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu   ***
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