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From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
cc: Mark Stout <mcs@vpm.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Netscape's Atlas for FreeBSD Bombs
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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > I think I remember seeing this come across this list earlier and didn't pay 
> > any attention to it, and now I wish I did.  The new Atlas from Nescape is
> > bombing with a 'floating' something error.  Is this a Netscape bug or 
> > something in FreeBSD?  Any known fixes?
> 
> It's using one of the wierd math coprocessor instructions, probably
> packed decimal or something equally dumb.  You can:
> 
> 1)	Install a math coprocessor
> 
> 2)	Rebuild a kernel with the GNU math coprocessor emulator
> 	(see /sys/i386/conf/LINT for instructions).

	What about on systems using a Pentium CPU which has the math 
coprocessor built in?

Richard