what can i do with a 486?

[Gray, David W]

As I recall, we had two emulators - one that didn't work so hot, and a
better one that was, alas
GPL'd, and therefore couldn't be built into a distribution kernel.

As to when it stopped shipping, I dunno - I know it's in 4, and I know
it isn't in 6, but I don't
have any 5. boxen left. (The laptop I couldn't get to work under 5.2+ is
now happily purring under 
Ubuntu, and everything else is on 6.)

And yeah, I misremembered the overdrive chips (but, the '487 WAS NOT a
math coprocessor - it was a real
'486 + fpu, with a bond out option.) 

-----Original Message-----
From: deeptech71 at gmail.com [mailto:deeptech71 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 5:27 PM
To: Gray, David W
Cc: freebsd-chat at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486?

Gray, David W wrote:
> Is that a 48*6* or a 48*7*??? You MUST HAVE a floating point emulator 
> if you don't have a '487 (also known as a '486 overdrive), or no boot.

> I'm at work, so I don't know if we still ship the emulator(s), but you

> need it.

That might be it. How to add FPU emu support to the 6.2 kernel? (or is
it available up to 5.2?)