On Wed, 8 May 1996, Jacob Savin wrote:

>   The 32-bit addressing thing sounds a bit wierd to me though... After all,
> my system isn't all that strange. 68030, 12MB + HDs sounds pretty normal
> for this kind of thing... What about FPUs? Am I gonna have to get one? I
> haven't heard anything about it yet.

What version of MacOS again?  Did you say 7.5.3?  I remember someone else
complaining about having a little trouble with 7.5.3.  That's a variable
that hasn't really been eliminated, I don't think.  Other than that, an
030... pretty standard.

An FPU: you'll want to replace your math libraries with the FPU-less
libraries before you start compiling anything, and some binaries that
require FPUs may fail, so get the source and recompile with the FPU-less
libs if something gives a floating point exception errror.  Other than
that, floating point emulation is working fine for me so far.

> Somehow I think this is stuff you've seen before but I guess from the
> number of responses to my posts that maybe it isn't.

24 bit....  Did you have virtual memory on?  Have you tried with it on?
Just curious.  DL a short tar.gz file and run the installer and tell it to
install it in 32-bit with virtual on.  The system may behave differently.

That is rather odd, considering that the installer even works on
powermacs, as does mkfs.

Hmmm....

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