From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Apr 3 14:37:40 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA19983 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:37:40 -0700 Received: from vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.142.36]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA19832 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:31:24 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA03706; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 20:57:09 +0200 Message-Id: <199504031857.UAA03706@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> X-Authentication-Warning: vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Crazy idea In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 01 Apr 1995 21:34:27 +0200." <9504011934.AA07355@junco.fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 20:57:08 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey Sender: hardware-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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