somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 3/23/02 2:40 PM, the entity known
as Mike Hoye transmitted the following from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

> I've got two Duos, a 270 and a 280. Linux won't work at all on a 280, it
> turns out, because the 68lc040 chip is buggy (bad FPU)

The chip is NOT buggy at all.  The LC in the name indicates that this is an
040 chip that was built from the get-go *without* an FPU.  But yes, this was
sort of an odd-ball chip, so it's not surprising that none of the unices
I've heard of have supported it.

- Eric.

-- 

Eric Strobel (fyzycyst@NOSPAM^mailaps.org)

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