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From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Latest version of Microport Unix/386
Message-ID: <208@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 88 19:57:10 GMT
References: <412@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <24166@clyde.ATT.COM> <328@uport.UUCP> <330@uport.UUCP> <275@bby-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
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In article <275@bby-bc.UUCP> john@bby-bc.UUCP (john) writes:
>What about floating point for the 286 - any fixes in sight yet?
>It's bad enough that legitimate floating point doesn't work correctly
>but having the entire system crash while trying to do a legit floating
>operation is too much - or was it fixed and I don't know about it?

Me too.   I've had so many other problems, that I almost forgot about
this one!  What a pain!

It's amazing what Microport can get away with.  If they fewer problems,
a lot of the stuff I'm not too worried about now would be a top priority.
With Microport, just getting it to work is top priority.  "Little" problems
like malloc, floating point, csh bugs, etc. etc. don't seem very important
anymore.
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