From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:54:01 +0100
From: Digby Tarvin digbyt@acm.org
Subject: [9fans] man/troff
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>has the machine you're using got floating-point?
>
Ah, that has the right sort of ring to it.
The machine is an old DECpc 425sx, which has a 486sz processor.

It is a long time since I worried about co-processor stuff, and
I was sort of thinking along the lines of 486s having FP build
in. Could it be that the low cost SX version was without it?

I did, incidentally, manage to get my old Sun SS2 to boot off the
same file server, and the man/troff stuff works fine.

In any case, whatever the deficiency in the PC, the system isn't
handling it very elegantly.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Regards,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
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