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  2. From: kenji@reseau.rd.macrofield.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
  4. Subject: Re: Support for hardware floating point - when?
  5. Message-ID: <921227100@reseau.rd.macrofield.or.jp>
  6. Date: 27 Dec 92 03:17:36 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec24.221828.11339@netcom.com>
  8. Reply-To: kenji@rd.macrofield.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake)
  9. Organization: Macrofield Corporation, Toyonaka-City, Osaka, Japan
  10. Lines: 12
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  12.  
  13. Tony Porczyk (messina@netcom.com) wrote:
  14. : Quick question for MWC - since Coherent practically begs to be used 
  15. : in small financial offices, are there any plans to add support for
  16. : hardware floating point? 
  17.  
  18. On Coherent 4.0.1r65 (Bug-fix unsupported release from MWC), I see
  19. a string "80x87." appears when I boot the kernel. So I think MWC
  20. is surely doing something on it.
  21.  
  22. I also want to have a robust 80x87 support.
  23.  
  24. // Kenji
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