Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:15:37 -0400 From: "Gray, David W" <David.W.Gray@nielsen.com> To: <deeptech71@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: what can i do with a 486? Message-ID: <3428D9627CC79A4ABF37A519431D98120D6867CE@nmr001oldmsx05.enterprisenet.org> In-Reply-To: <461AAF8E.6000304@gmail.com>
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As I recall, we had two emulators - one that didn't work so hot, and a better one that was, alas GPL'd, and therefore couldn't be built into a distribution kernel. As to when it stopped shipping, I dunno - I know it's in 4, and I know it isn't in 6, but I don't have any 5. boxen left. (The laptop I couldn't get to work under 5.2+ is now happily purring under Ubuntu, and everything else is on 6.) And yeah, I misremembered the overdrive chips (but, the '487 WAS NOT a math coprocessor - it was a real '486 + fpu, with a bond out option.) -----Original Message----- From: deeptech71@gmail.com [mailto:deeptech71@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 5:27 PM To: Gray, David W Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? 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?)home | help
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