On Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:37:25 +0600,
marami@terraba.fing.ucr.ac.cr (Marco A. Ramirez) wrote:
> What is FPU?

FPU stands for Floating-Point Unit.  It performs numerical operations
on "floating-point" numbers.  Floating-point numbers are digital
representation of mathematical real numbers, but it is impossible to
represent an infinite precision in a finite number of bits, so you get
an error (small difference between the value what you should get and
the value what you really get, like 1/3 vs 0.333).

> How does the unix sistem use the mac modem software to conect it to the
> internet?

It doesn't use "mac modem software" to talk to the modem.  It uses
its own.  When you connect to the Internet via a modem, you usually
use pppd (which talks PPP) or slattach (which talks SLIP).

Ken