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Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486?
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Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> deeptech71@gmail.com wrote:
>> Gray, David W wrote:
>>> Is that a 48*6* or a 48*7*??? You MUST HAVE a floating point emulator if
>>> you don't have a '487
>>> (also known as a '486 overdrive), or no boot. I'm at work, so I don't
>>> know if we still ship
>>> the emulator(s), but you need it.
>>
>> That might be it. How to add FPU emu support to the 6.2 kernel? (or is 
>> it available up to 5.2?)
> 
> I would try to boot 4.11-R before investing any more time trying to boot 
> 5.x or 6.x.  Legacy support is still intact in 4.x and, if it does boot, 
> you can provide complete dmesg and pciconf outputs.
> 

What is this? It caught my eye.

    npx0: 387 emulator

Because 10 minutes ago I installed FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE on the 486 and it boots 
with the generic kernel and works just fine. OMG!