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NetBSD 10.x Kernel Math_emulation


This is my battle-worn, falling-apart laptop rocking an #i486SX CPU from the early ’90s. It’s so ancient that it doesn’t even have an FPU (Actually, that’s not true, they just cut-out F…

But here’s the kicker—the very moment I finished compiling the kernel, ready to test my work, my laptop decided to stop recognizing the Enter key. I’m excited to announce the first release of i486SX_soft_FPU — a software FPU emulator for the classic Intel 486SX CPU, running on NetBSD 10! This entry was posted in My projects and tagged 486SX, 86Box, FPU emulation, FPU_emulation, i486SX, NetBSD, opensource, retro-comuting, retrocomputing by mezzantrop.

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