Subject: Re: m68k soft float (was illegal instruction)
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Victor Gallardo <goombaz@worldnet.att.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/11/2003 08:24:33
This is truly a heartwarming story about the bond formed between a little
girl and some construction workers. This makes you want to believe in the
goodness of people and that there is hope for the human race. A young family
moved into a house next door to a vacant lot. One day a construction crew
turned up to start building a house on the empty lot.  The young family's
5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on
next door and started talking with the workers.  She hung around and
eventually the construction crew, all of them gems-in-the-rough, more or
less adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They chatted with her,
let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and gave her
little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important. At the end of
the first week they even presented her with a "pay" envelope containing a
dollar.
The little girl took this home to her mother who said all the appropriate
words of admiration and suggested that they take the dollar pay she had
received to the bank the next day to start a savings account.  When they got
to the bank the teller was equally impressed with the story and asked the
little girl how she had come by her very own pay check at such a young age.
The little girl proudly replied, "I worked all last week with a crew
building a house."
"My goodness gracious," said the teller, "and will you be working on the
house again this week, too?"
The little girl replied, "I will if those useless sons-a-bitches at the
lumber yard ever bring us any drywall that's worth a sh*%!"




> > As for future releases, isn't sun2 userland built with -soft-float? If
> > so, it could serve with just a few additions. Then we could have just
> > the two sets of sets, one for m68000 (-m68000 + -msoft-float), and one
> > for m68k (-m68020 or -m68020-40 or -m68020-60).
>
> sun2 has different MACHINE_ARCH (m68000) and MID_MACHINE (MID_M680002K)
> from other m68k ports (m68k and MID_M68K).
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
> tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp