tcjam wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Edward Seth Miller wrote:
> > 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
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> Not only that but someone should give this poor person a simple answer
> like he doesn't need an actual FPU since NetBSD/mac68k has FPE (Floating
> Point Emulation). I'm running NetBSD on my P460 just fine without an FPU.

Although this is true, NetBSD is known to run considerably faster _with_
and FPU (for example, I've heard people with LC's waiting 10 minutes for X
to load, it takes me about 1 minute on my IIci).

Of course it might be more worth it to buy an '040-based machine,
depending on how much a 68882 costs for the machine in question.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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