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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.postech.ac.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!longacre.demon.co.uk From: searle@longacre.demon.co.uk (Michael Searle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FP Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 21:05:08 BST Lines: 17 Message-ID: <nFFC4136B@longacre.demon.co.uk> References: <32109F45.28D3@alaska.net> <4v4a7f$au3@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: longacre.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: longacre.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Offlite 0.09 / Termite Internet for Acorn RISC OS j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: > hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> wrote: >> i seem to have confirmed the lack of floating point support in BSD. i >> play with many different machines and find that adding an FPU makes the >> difference between FreeBSD(2.1.5) running or not. > Can you express this in plain English, please? I cannot make any sense > out of it. It sounds like he can run FreeBSD on a machine with a floating point coprocessor successfully, but not on the same machine without the FPU. I guess he hasn't enabled floating point emulation in his config. -- Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk