I've been looking for a math coprocessor for my 386 for some time. I've bought two on EBay, but they pin outs don't match my Dell motherboard. Anyone have any ideas?
Aaron D. Priest Coastal Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 09:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker-firewall] FW: [Cooker] i486 optimized? Don Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... > > I find it kind of humorous that every time the subject of > i386/i486 compiles or anything else along those lines is > brought up, Mandrake employees don't respond to the > seemingly valid points raised by us users. I thought I > actually found a good way to have the best of both > worlds, and took the time to write it out as best I could > and post it to this list. All I want is to hear what you > have to say about my ideas (in the e-mail above). Hello there, we have answered several times at this question. Thes kernels in the SNF were not compiled with the math co-processor emulation. This would have implied too big floppy images for the boot process. We have started to compile several packages for a 486 but stopped the process at some stage because of the above reasons. One can install the SNF even on a 386 with a math co-processor. Maybe this is not the answer you were looking for ... One of Mandrake policies is to compile all the packages with Pentium optimisations. sincerely, -- Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com
