Subject: Re: 386 Vs 386+387
To: Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org>
From: Paul de Weerd <paul@mail.me.maar.nu>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/09/2002 15:58:02
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 09:48:24AM -0400, Andy Ball wrote:
| 
| Hello Wojciech,
| 
|   WP> i'm using 386DX/40 for routing/ipnat'ing/ipf/DNS/DHCP
|     > 230kbps leased-line link (ISA RS-232) for 2 subnets.
|     > works at full speed
| 
| Nice chip that.  Out of interest, do you have a (40MHz?) 387
| fitted?  I'm wondering how well NetBSD works these days on
| gear without an FPU.

At 65% of the speed my 386@25MHz is not fast, but it works OK ;)

see a post from me some time ago :
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2002/05/24/0000.html

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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