From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Message-Id: <199804080412.OAA03122@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Subject: Re: Floating Point-How Important to Unix?
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:12:29 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <19980408133357.40721@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Apr 8, 98 01:33:57 pm"
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In article by Greg Lehey:
> Considering that
> floating point was an option, I find it hard to believe that so many
> programs, in particular things like tar, would use FP.

I know zip all about PDP-11 FP, but I know that when I was getting my
Apout V7 simulator working (which doesn't do FP, by the way), I had to
at least emulate setd, because crt0 in V7 starts with:

start:
        setd
        mov     2(sp),r0
        clr     -2(r0)

	Warren