Subject: Re: FPU
To: Lawrence Kesteloot <lk@milquetoast.engr.sgi.com>
From: Michael Krause <krause@wariat.org>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 08/02/1994 17:02:40
> Right. Back around Christmas I wrote a quicky module in the kernel to
> trap, parse, and skip FP instructions. I've never been able to test
> it because all the machines I had my hands on had an FPU. If someone
I can test it, but I have an 040 Mac. BTW, when should the 040 MacBSD
version be out ? ( I can't wait ) Centris 610 is what I got ...
> doesn't volunteer to write an FPU emulator soon, we'll have to revive
> that and see if it can be made to work. It would return 0 for all
> operations, but, as you say, that's better than nothing.
Truly.
> Lawrence
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Later ... (I'm a MacBSD semi-reader, and promise to participate !! :) )
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