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Date:      Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:36:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.990712133617.2595F-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907121926.PAA02307@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:28:04 +0200, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> said:
> 
> > I'm going to work on FreeBSD's floating point support, but I need to
> > test my changes on systems using the FPU emulators (non-GPL and GPL). 
> 
> I suggested about half a year ago that we should officially desupport
> non-FPU configurations in 4.0.  Unfortunately, my resolution was
> soundly defeated.

there are a lot of 486sx and 386 machines out there doing real work.

> 
> -GAWollman
> 
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