W2HX via cctalk wrote:
> ?Hi friends. I am putting together a PDP-11 set up. i have a few CPUs
> available to me, a 11/23+, an 11/73 and I also have available to me an 11/83,
> M8190-AE .
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> I would like to try to run as many different OS's as may interest me,
> including some unixes as possible (bsd...etc). My question is, are there any
> OSes that need the floating point option?
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> Another question is, would I see any improvement in performance with the FPU
> compared to without it? Or does the application running need to be something
> like fortran to see any perceivable difference?
>
>
> Thanks
2.11BSD needs it. There is an peace of emulator software in it, but as
far as I know it never really worked.
Regards,
Holm
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