From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 12 13:55:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from misha.cisco.com (misha.cisco.com [171.69.206.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E220C1511B; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@misha.cisco.com) Received: (from mi@localhost) by misha.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA80307; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:55:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi) Message-Id: <199907122055.QAA80307@misha.cisco.com> Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? In-Reply-To: from "Brian F. Feldman" at "Jul 12, 1999 04:26:06 pm" To: "Brian F. Feldman" Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:55:22 -0400 (EDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: mi@aldan.algebra.com From: Mikhail Teterin X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL60 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian F. Feldman once wrote: > > I suggested about half a year ago that we should officially > > desupport non-FPU configurations in 4.0. Unfortunately, my > > resolution was soundly defeated. > > Why shouldn't we? Noone uses machines without FPUs anymore. What > non-ancient CPU doesn't have an FPU? And we're talking about the i386 > family here... "One should NEVER, EVER generalize". My laptop, for example, is a 386SX25 with 8Mb of RAM. Minicom, fetchmail, sendmail, and elm work just peachy on it. To answer someone else's question about the OS version on it -- it is 3.2-BETA as of beginning of May, pretty recent... Made by Digital (may they RIP) it is quite reliable, although the on-board battery is no more, and I have to re-set the time on it after the external battery runs out. I'd rather see the FPU emulation remains available, although, by the time 4.0 becomes -stable (when?), I _may_ retire the poor thing. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message