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From: TheDuck <smpc@aloha.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FP
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 22:07:29 -1000
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;J Wunsch wrote:
;> 
;> hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> wrote:
;> 
;> > 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.
;> 
;> Can you express this in plain English, please?  I cannot make any
;> sense out of it.
;> 
;> --
;> cheers, J"org
;> 
;> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC:
;JW11-RIPE
;> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

List all the hardware on the mentioned machines, this might prove
interesting.