Subject: Re: ClassicII need FPU for netbsd?
To: kazunori miura <kazu@zao.or.jp>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/12/1998 12:33:30
> I am trying install netbsd for mac68k into my classicII.
> I wonder classicII need FPU for running netbsd?

No, we have FPE (floating point emulation) that works for FPU-less '030
machines.  It would certainly speed up things to have an FPU, tho, since
software emulation is a bit slower than doing it in hardware.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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