Subject: Re: 386 Vs 386+387
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Paul de Weerd <paul@mail.me.maar.nu>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/11/2002 11:03:36
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 09:56:22PM -0400, Andy Ball wrote:
| Hello Paul,
|
|   PdW> At 65% of the speed my 386@25MHz is not fast, but it
|      > works OK ;)
|
| Out of interest, is that a DX or SX?  Either way, it's good
| to know that NetBSD still works on FPU-less PCs.

Hmm .. good one.

From my dmesg (see my previous post for a link to the full dmesg) :

$ dmesg
NetBSD 1.5 (WEiRD) #3: Fri Dec 29 18:36:23 CET 2000
    weerd@vmnetbsd.amsterdam.weirdnet.nl:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/WEiRD
cpu0: Intel 386DX (386-class)
...

NetBSD claims it's a DX, but i'm not sure .. the machine is now
$ uptime
10:48AM  up 556 days,  7:47, 1 user, load averages: 0.14, 0.09, 0.08

So I haven't seen the CPU for over 1.5 years.

BTW .. there've been some issues with FPU-emulation in 1.5.x, see a
post of mine :
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2001/08/14/0006.html
and the reply (with patches) from Wojciech Puchar :
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2001/08/14/0007.html

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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