Subject: Re: instruction emulation
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: port-vax
Date: 08/17/2000 13:02:49
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> No, you need a KE780 module to use G and H floats, otherwise there will
> be a trap. F and D floats are however emulated in microcode if no
> floating point accelerator is present.
Hmmm. Wonder how many 780s that didn't have the KE780...?
While I'm not sure at it, I think the 750 and 86x0 machines handle G and H
floats even without an FPA, but FPA is nice to have...
Johnny
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