Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 20:57:08 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Crazy idea Message-ID: <199504031857.UAA03706@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Apr 1995 21:34:27 %2B0200." <9504011934.AA07355@junco.fsl.noaa.gov>
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> Do you think it's at all expedient to just keep the buggy CPU and save > $150 to $250 off a CPU-less motherboard? I can live with the FDIV bug. make sense to me keep the buggy pentium & save the $150/$250, but then I have friends on this list who already know I'm a cheapskate at times ;-) It should be easy to criple the npx0: detector in a special kernel to tell your new bargain box you have no float hardware. :-) Julian S
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