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From: Matthew.White@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Packages on a 386?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:27:08 -0400
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: 17-Aug-95 Re: Packages
on a 386? J Wunsch@bonnie.heep.sax (1322*)

> The floating point code in FreeBSD is not IEEE compliant.  Period.

Okay.  Do we *want* to be IEEE compliant?


-Matt