Lack of floating point on Micronics 386/33Mhz w/Interactive rel 3.2
Dennis S. Breckenridge
root at nebulus.UUCP
Sun Feb 4 14:33:47 AEST 1990
To detirmine what the kernel see's as its floating point try:
# crash
> od fp_kind
Crash will respond with 0-3. 0=no floating point, 1=software emulation
2=80287 FP chip, 3=80387 FP chip
Now if you are using an emulator here is a couple of tips. The
file /etc/emulator is a link to one of two emulators.
/etc/emulator.dflt is the standard (buggy) Microsoft Floating
point emulator. This emulator is very fast, but certain functions
dump core. I should also point out that if this file gets
truncated, and it does happen things start breaking all over the
place, mainly simultask. The other file (if it exists) is called
/etc/emulator.rel1. This is a much enhanced and considerably
slower FP emulator but for the most part it works!
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NAME: Dennis S. Breckenridge UUCP: dennis at nebulus
EMACS: Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping!
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