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From: mjy@sdti.SDTI.COM (Michael J. Young)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: floating point under Microport
Message-ID: <343@sdti.SDTI.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 88 14:41:19 GMT
References: <612@cimcor.mn.org>
Reply-To: mjy@sdti.UUCP (0006-Michael J. Young)
Organization: Software Development Technologies, Sudbury MA
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In article <612@cimcor.mn.org> mike@cimcor.mn.org (Michael Grenier) writes:
>OK, if this is a compiler bug, I might finally admit that
>SCO is better (and it will hurt too!).
> ...
>
>Does this work on anyone's 286?
>I didn't look real hard but the assembly language was reasonable other
>than the inefficient use of fwait. The sdb debugger was hopeless...why
>can't it trap a floating exception instead of giving me a core dump
>of the debugger?

% cc -o tst1 tst1.c
% tst1
2.000000
% cc -Ml -o tst1 tst1.c
% tst1
2.000000
% 

Rest easy.  Don't hurt yourself.

I'm using the version 2.4, by the way.

>Better yet, can anyone recommend a cheap way to upgrade to a 80386
>processor? Awhile back people were talking about using a 386SX with
>a PAL on a small board which could be placed into the 286 socket...
>Anyone know of such a thing?

I've seen an announcement about a company called Aox that's developing
a 386SX daughter board for under $500.  It even has a small memory cache
on board to increase the speed.  It is supposed to deliver about 90% of
the throughput of a 16-MHz 386.

Unfortunately, it won't be available till sometime next year.  Plenty
of time for them to hike the price a few times :-(.
-- 
Mike Young
Software Development Technologies, Inc., Sudbury MA       Tel: +1 508 443 5779
Internet: mjy@sdti.sdti.com                 UUCP: {harvard,mit-eddie}!sdti!mjy