Subject: RE: Floating point in the kernel
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Victor Escobar <sydbarrett@mindspring.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/19/1998 02:01:01
How does BeOS support multi-media?  I was under the assumption that they
support FP in their kernel.  Am I wrong?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-kern-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:tech-kern-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Stone
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 11:29 PM
> To: Jason Thorpe
> Cc: tech-kern@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Floating point in the kernel
>
>
>
> > And what is your evidence?
>
> Hands-on experiment and comparsions, and conversations with people
> doing active research in schedulers and real-time work.  Discussion
> with experts in mpeg decoders for non-Unix systems.  Seminars by
> former PhD students here who've now moved on.  Some of this stuff isnt
> published yet, so if you want more details, I'll have to ask.
> Maybe we can arrange a demo.
>