Why do you need a 387 to run X11R3?
Skip Montanaro
montnaro at spyder.crd.ge.com
Tue Mar 13 04:01:10 AEST 1990
In article <20301 at nuchat.UUCP> steve at nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) writes:
Personally I think the choice of doing FP emulation in the kernel
was regretable, especially given the price-sensitivity common
to most 386 users and the astounding price of 387 chips. But
I can understand why they went that way, with the huge push
for binary compatiblity that is going on.
Sun also uses a kernel trap/emulation scheme on there SPARC machines. (They
use (or used to use) compiler flags on there 680x0 machines.) What a
disaster! Fortunately, the only machine that exhibits this problem is the
4/110. All other SPARC machines Sun sells have FPUs.
Skip (montanaro at crdgw1.ge.com)
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