According to Michael P Urban:
> 
> I must be doing something stupid, but cannot for the life of me
> imagine what it might be.  I am attempting to install NetBSD 1.1 on my
> Sun-3/50 at home.  The RAMDISK kernel boots, prints its welcome
> message, then it says "PID 3 killed: No support for floating point"
> (or some message very close to that; sorry, this is from memory), and
> just lays there inertly.
> 
> This is not encouraging.
> 
> Does this sound familiar, or am I really the first person to actually
> try to install this from scratch?

The early Sun 3/50 machines had the Motorola 68881 FPU chip optional
(as a cost savings measure -- recall, this was Sun's low cost/entry-
level product back in 1985 or there-abouts).

You probably have to build NetBSD the other way (or grab "the other"
release -- the one with out floating point support, if there is such
a beast) or go out and buy a Motorola 68881 chip and stick it into
your Sun 3/50M...  :-)

Regards,

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