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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!umd5.umd.edu!roissy.umd.edu!mark From: mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386BSD/NetBSD FPU emulator ? Date: 20 Aug 1993 15:09:21 GMT Organization: University of Maryland Lines: 14 Message-ID: <252pf1$isa@umd5.umd.edu> References: <24vc8k$ltr@itu1.sun.ac.za> <250bgn$r96@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <109524@hydra.gatech.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: roissy.umd.edu In article <109524@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob) writes: > >This has since been replaced by Bill Metzenthan's math emulator, offering >much improved performance and accuracy (no offense, Linus!). It looks >like a fairly good piece of software; they even went so far as to >reverse engineering some undocumented opcodes for it. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yow!! I'm glad I have floating point hardware. Maybe some of the problems people have with the floating point emulator is related to this. Vendors usually feel free to change undocumented interfaces at their whim, and they are often very whimsical. :)