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From: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FP
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 08:29:09 -0700
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i seem to have confirmed the lack of floating point support
in BSD.  i play with many different machines and find that adding
an FPU makes the difference between FreeBSD(2.1.5) running
or not.