As I recall, we had two emulators - one that didn't work so hot, and a better one that was, alas GPL'd, and therefore couldn't be built into a distribution kernel.
As to when it stopped shipping, I dunno - I know it's in 4, and I know it isn't in 6, but I don't have any 5. boxen left. (The laptop I couldn't get to work under 5.2+ is now happily purring under Ubuntu, and everything else is on 6.) And yeah, I misremembered the overdrive chips (but, the '487 WAS NOT a math coprocessor - it was a real '486 + fpu, with a bond out option.) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 5:27 PM To: Gray, David W Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? Gray, David W wrote: > Is that a 48*6* or a 48*7*??? You MUST HAVE a floating point emulator > if you don't have a '487 (also known as a '486 overdrive), or no boot. > I'm at work, so I don't know if we still ship the emulator(s), but you > need it. That might be it. How to add FPU emu support to the 6.2 kernel? (or is it available up to 5.2?) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
