Subject: Re: SETI@home ?
To: allisonp@world.std.com, Greg Ingram <ingram@symsys.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/04/1999 10:25:33
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 12:47:50PM -0500, allisonp@world.std.com wrote:
> > > Is there a port for NetBSD/VAX for SETI@home?
> > > I have three VAXen I want to setup to run SETI with NetBSD/VAX 1.4.
> > 
> > No, and apparently none is forthcoming.  Seems the VAX doesn't do IEEE
> > floating point.
> 
> So!  Hell z80s don't either but I've done IEEE FP math on them too, though
> slowly.   If not convert it.

There is (was) at least one "coprocessor" (really, i/o chip) for 8bit micros
that does/did IEEE. I don't recall the name or manufacturer.

	-is
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