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#! rnews 1440 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!02-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!van.istar!west.istar!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!nuhou.aloha.net!news From: TheDuck <smpc@aloha.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FP Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 22:07:29 -1000 Organization: http://www.aloha.net/~smpc Lines: 21 Message-ID: <321820C1.75B6@aloha.net> References: <32109F45.28D3@alaska.net> <4v4a7f$au3@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: smpc@aloha.net NNTP-Posting-Host: hawaii70.u.aloha.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6Gold (Win95; I) ;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. ;> ;> -- ;> cheers, J"org ;> ;> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: ;JW11-RIPE ;> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) List all the hardware on the mentioned machines, this might prove interesting.