From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: Bug in Bob Supnik's Emulator!
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 10:16:15 +1000 (EST)
Cc: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation)
In-Reply-To: <9804030000.AA00122@alph02.triumf.ca> from Tim Shoppa at "Apr 2, 98 04:00:40 pm"
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In article by Tim Shoppa:
> > I suspect the FP emulation in Bob's Emulator [breaking factor(6)]
> More evidence of a bug is that 'vi' doesn't work right under Bob
> Supnik's emulator, either.  At one point Steven Schultz made some
> private speculations to me about where the problem might be, but
> I've forgotten the details.  Is it possible that these two bugs
> are both due to FP emulation?  Does the 2.11BSD 'vi' even use
> the FP registers?

Don't know about vi FP, I could go have a look at the source. No, vi
doesn't appear to use any floating point.

I asked Bob about the factor(6) bug in my Ultrix mail, he didn't mention
it, but he might at some stage. I'll keep people informed.

As for vi, what was the abnormal behaviour?

	Warren