>From: Daniel P Kamalic <pocky@MIT.EDU>
>Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 23:05:33 EST
>
>
>	Hi.  Since you've been talking about math coprocessor emulation,  I 
>thought I'd bring up something I sent to the list some time ago.
>
>	I'm running NetBSD 1.0A on a 486-DLC-40 (no FPU).  I get math errors in 
>Maple, MIT Scheme, Netscape (running Java applets), and others.
>
>	For example, when I try to plot something in Maple, the plot window goes 
>up and goes black and just when it's about to render:
>
> math_emulate: 0xd9fa not implemented

What OS were your Maple, Scheme, and Netscape binaries compiled for?
Unlike NetBSD (see src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/arch/i386/netbsd.h), that OS' C
compiler probably uses the full range of 387 instructions.
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