Date: 12 Jun 2003 17:20:30 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.1 on a 386 Message-ID: <4465nbm1r5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030612173325.K26278-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> References: <20030612173325.K26278-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> writes: > On 12 Jun 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > > > No, the 386SX is a problem because it has no floating point registers > > (or any other floating point support, for that matter). The 386DX > > (with the floating point support onboard) is supported just fine, as I > > understand it. > > No. That's the diference between the 486SX and the 486DX. The 386 > never had FP on chip, you need a separate 387. The 386SX is a 386 > with a 16-bit data bus, instead of the 32-bit data bus of the 386. Oh, yeah. Right you are.
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