Subject: Re: Performa 467 FPU
To: Johan Claesson <Johan.Claesson@uab.ericsson.se>
From: Edward Seth Miller <esmiller@engin.umich.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/11/1997 03:56:50
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Johan Claesson wrote:

> Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
> > 
> > >I saw that NetBSD is running on Performa 467s but requires a FPU.
> > >Anybody have any idea where I can get one?
> > >
> > 
> > Check the back of MacWeek or MacWorld
> > 
> > Dan Killoran
> > 
> > 
> 
> You can't actually buy a FPU, you must buy the whoole processor.
> Which means that you must replace the old FPU-less processor with the
> full FPU equiped one. I did so on my Performa 475, it wasn't really
> hard. A screw driver will do must of the job (but be careful).

Actually, the Performa 467 is 68030-based, not 68LC040-based, so it does
use an external FPU (a 68882).  The original answer was correct.

	-Seth Miller