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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: [386bsd] installing fpu (ULSI) results in floating exceptions Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 06:05:52 GMT Message-ID: <1992Nov30.060552.7912@kithrup.COM> References: <1992Nov25.233843.29513@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <6440@tuegate.tue.nl> <1992Nov30.013413.1119@ponds.uucp> Lines: 12 In article <1992Nov30.013413.1119@ponds.uucp> rivers@ponds.uucp (Thomas David Rivers) writes: > 1) The ULSI chip does *not* provide 80287 instructions (as the Intel > and Cyrix chips do) Uh... are you sure you mean 80287? Remember that the 80387 is a proper superset of the '287. -- Sean Eric Fagan | "we will probably just crash immediately; but at least sef@kithrup.COM | we will have written less code." -----------------+ -- Chris Torek (torek@ee.lbl.gov) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.