On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, John P. Wittkoski wrote:

> The FPE code is 
> enabled by default when you get the kernel source unless you manually
> comment it out of the configuration file. I don't know why anyone whould
> end up doing this, however,  [...]

Where I am concerned, I care to neither waste precious memory (8M total 
in my machine) nor the CPU to compile the FPE (8MHz 030).  However, I'll 
grant that my kernels are very specialized, and not intended for general 
public consumption.

--scott