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Re: 2.9bsd floating pt. simulation library problem

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From: Dan Ts'o
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1985 18:49
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In article <> stan@tikal.UUCP (Stan Tazuma) writes:
>We are having problems getting the floating point simulation library
>to work on a PDP 11/23 running 2.9bsd.

Sorry to ask, but why would anyone want floating point emulation on an
11/23 when you can get the FPU microcode chip for < $150 ?
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From: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.2bsd,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: 2.9bsd floating pt. simulation library problem
Message-ID: <410@rna.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 14:49:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 14:49:08 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Jun-85 04:34:20 EDT
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