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From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: OS9, OS9000 for NeXT
Message-ID: <18138@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 91 21:12:54 GMT
References: <1991Apr5.075344.1486@urz.unibas.ch> <1837@mwca.UUCP>
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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In article <1837@mwca.UUCP> bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard) writes:
+
+Both OS-9 and OS-9000 can run on the 68040 - there is no technical obstacle
+to this being done.

How do you handle transendental FLOPS (I like the sound of that)
which are not implemented on the 68040 chip. Do you have a
math40.traplib or the like?

Also do you need a new kernel to handle the 40, i.e. if you have a
30 kernel is that enough for now.
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John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu