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- From: ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Support for hardware floating point - when?
- Message-ID: <9301051013.AA08451@invid.mwc.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 16:59:18 GMT
- References: <9212271025.AA24614@relay1.UU.NET>
- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
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- >
- > Tony Porczyk (messina@netcom.com) wrote:
- > : Quick question for MWC - since Coherent practically begs to be used
- > : in small financial offices, are there any plans to add support for
- > : hardware floating point?
- >
- > On Coherent 4.0.1r65 (Bug-fix unsupported release from MWC), I see
- > a string "80x87." appears when I boot the kernel. So I think MWC
- > is surely doing something on it.
- >
- > I also want to have a robust 80x87 support.
- >
- > // Kenji
- >
-
- In 4.01r65 what you are seeing is the system looking for the coprocessor only.
- Hardware FPU should appear in the next release.
-