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Re: MATH_EMULATE



On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:24:58PM +0100, Vit Herman wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
 
> I think you're right about the regularity of the tests - people using old 
> machines tend to upgrade less IMO, because they mostly don't need the need 
> the newest features and upgrades are generally more painful on old 
> hardware.

Especially if you only have the one box running NetBSD.  Hard to do if
the drive is too small.

> 
> >In fact, Andrew Doran committed a change today to fix the 486DX -- it
> >had apparently been broken in -current for 9 months... (I don't know
> >if that breakage was in NetBSD 4 as well, but it may have been, in
> >which case you might want to test a -current from right now.)
> 

The last time I tried on my 486DX4-100 was NetBSD 3.1 and it worked just
fine.




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