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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.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 19:06:22 GMT Message-ID: <1992Nov30.190622.2701@kithrup.COM> References: <1992Nov30.013413.1119@ponds.uucp> <1992Nov30.060552.7912@kithrup.COM> <ByJIpL.69w@unx.sas.com> Lines: 14 In article <ByJIpL.69w@unx.sas.com> sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers) writes: > Yes, apparently the definition ULSI followed doesn't strictly imply > superset. That's the flaw. The '387-only instructions are the transcendental instructions. I have an IIT 387 in my machine, and I guarantee that it executes the entire suite of instructions. -- 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.