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#! rnews 1572 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!pipex-sa.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!news.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!wang!uunet!in2.uu.net!news1.i1.net!Empire.Net!nntp.alaska.net!usenet From: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FP Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 04:19:07 -0700 Organization: Internet Alaska Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <321EE52B.39F5@alaska.net> References: <32109F45.28D3@alaska.net> <4v4a7f$au3@uriah.heep.sax.de> <321820C1.75B6@aloha.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hmmm.alaska.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) TheDuck wrote: > ;> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > List all the hardware on the mentioned machines, this might prove > interesting. according to my boss, he took a 387 in and out of a at&t wgs 386/25 and that made the difference between it running or not (crashed @ npx0). i saw it crash & then work, but didn't do it myself. the best answer i got was that the standard FPU emulation isn't very good, and that it's a good idea to include the other FPU emulation (which isn't normally compiled in because of licensing) and to rebuild the kernel. but i don't have time to chack all that.