Subject: Re: Pentiums
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/30/1994 08:40:57
It occurred to me that one way to deal with the FDIV bug *if the FPU
emulator was configured into the kernel* would be to disable the FPU,
since, in general, slow answers are better than wrong answers.
[This assumes that the emulator is (relatively) bug free, since
otherwise you'd be making things worse instead of better. Of course,
this may be a bad assumption...]
- Bill