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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!qns1.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!halley!integrity!olympus!faulkner From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Subject: Re: MATH Emulation: Is it any good? Message-ID: <1994Apr8.161107.15010@integrity.uucp> Sender: usenet@integrity.uucp (User for usenet) Organization: TANDEM Computers, Inc (MPD) References: <1994Apr6.233228.23947@integrity.uucp> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 16:11:07 GMT Lines: 17 In article 23947@integrity.uucp, faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) writes: > I have tried running astrolog, a gnu liscensed astrology program, and ended up a > Virgo. Being an Aries, I was less than thrilled with the results. I am running > on a 386, no math processor. I have run it on a BSDI 486 box and get the right > answer. Does anyone know if this might be due to the 386 floating point emulation > or problems in the math library? I dropped in the linux emulator (found in FreeBSD.cdrom.com: /pub/FreeBSD/incoming/newemu.tar.gz-pink) and now I am an Aries again, correct to the minute. My thanks to L. Jonas Olsson and all others who responded. Thanks, Boyd