>Lars Hagstrom wrote:
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>> There are a lot of people (including me) that are talking about the
>>broken fpe. I am wondering if this is a time for a joint effort to do
>>something about it.
>> I would start doing something if I felt that I knew something about how
>>to do it, but I dont. I would certainly assist someone with bugtesting +
>>possibly bits of code (I know a bit of 68k assembler). But what is needed
>>is someone to take hold of the pro
>ject.
>> The option of buying a full 040 seems a bit ridiculous to me, as I could
>>get a 486 PC for that price (ok, so its not a mac, but neither is
>>BSD....).
>>


Yes -- the 68040 is wildly overpriced. I got one for free (the Apple
lawsuit), and I'm glad I didn't have to pay for it. I've noticed no
significant difference in the performance of my applications. The only real
difference I've noticed is that I can run NetBSD....


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