From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 13 10:41: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D1F814E0B; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:40:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id TAA14611; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:27:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA04241; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:18:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199907122218.AAA04241@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? In-Reply-To: <21270.931811581@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jul 12, 1999 10:33: 1 pm" To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:18:06 +0200 (CEST) Cc: green@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, cracauer@cons.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (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 As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote ... > In message , "Bria > > >> 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... > > A lot of 386 machines are being built into places where people will > never know they are. We should not kill that market. www.tcja.nl was an ancient 386/40 until a couple of months ago. Low traffic Web servers don't (generally) need an FPU. No/low budget outfits run hardware most people on this list would give away for free (or thrash altogether). It is a M$-ism to discard a complete line of machines with each next release... Just my Dfl 0.02 -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message