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From: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FP
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 09:51:09 -0700
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it appears that FreeBSD does not work on machines
without FPU's.  is this correct?

i get the error on boot:

npx0 blah blah
rootfs is 1200kb compiled in MFS

then the system hangs ...