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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: Floating point ops don't work
In-Reply-To: ac@cs.brown.edu's message of Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:43:28 GMT
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:56:07 GMT
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In article <1992Oct16.144328.1391@cs.brown.edu> ac@cs.brown.edu (Arthur!! Chai) writes:
   I have the patched 1.0.3 kernel and XFree86 mono working. However, I just
   realized that floating point ops no longer work while trying to get
   ghostscript to work.  Hmmm ... is it because the kernel supplied with
   the X distribution is for a machine with a 387 installed ? If so, does 
   anyone have one without that ? Or am I just confused ? I have a plain 386SX-25
   without a 387 installed.  I would like to be able to have both X and floating
   point ops ;^) Any pointers would be appreciated.
   Arthur!!

The 1.0.3 kernel binary is the same as the GENERICISA except for the
XFree86 related patches.  So, it should have the same floating point
emulation codes as the kernel in the dist.fs floppy.  Rich