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- From: philb@cats.ucsc.edu (Philip Brown)
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- Subject: Re: FPUless 4/110's (was: Re: Solaris 2 vs Windows NT: ...)
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 09:46:27 GMT
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- aad@siemens.com (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
- >>I don't remember whether Sun left out *all* the chips, or just the
- >>Weitek chips, in an FPUless machine.
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- >For the 4/110, I'm moderately sure it was the whole daughterboard. Since
- >that board held a lot, I'd tend to believe that the whole thing was on
- >the daughterboard.
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- Not in my revision board. I have two sockets for those square chip things
- (weitek 1165 and 1164) on the main board itself.
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- >>Or try writing code that fetches the FPSR, and see what the FPU version
- >>number is. If it's 7, you have no FPU.
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- Waitaminit.. I thought version 0 would be no fpu??!!!
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