cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 06:36:59PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:30:12PM +0000, Michael Lucas wrote:
> > mwlucas     2005-05-12 16:30:12 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD doc repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml 
> >   Log:
> >   Get rid of math co-processor questions.  We don't run on that sort of
> >   hardware out-of-the-box anyway, so it's not a FAQ.
> >   
> >   Thanks to: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se>, for actually having
> >   the presence of mind to go look at UPDATING and confirm/deny this.
> 
> And as I said in that message, 4.11 does run on such hardware out of
> the box (and is still supported), so it might be premature to
> completely remove the math co-processor questions as they still apply
> to 4.x.

Yes, you did say that, and my commit message is not entirely accurate.

My gut reaction is that this is no longer a FAQ, however.  I truly
believe that anyone who is running FreeBSD on an honest-to-god 386/486
knows far more about it than any of us, and isn't checking the FAQ for
info.

I welcome evidence to the contrary, however.

==ml

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