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Re: Corel NetWinder as a wearable?

 writes:
> On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Scott Lee wrote:

> > doesn't the SA110 not have floating-point support in hardware? 
> > anyone know for sure?  that could be a nasty limitation for 
> > some applications.

> The SA110 just about has to have a fp processor, as the work on
> non-fp ports is just starting, and the only hardware to successfully
> run Linux w/o it is the Palm Pilot.

What's missing on the Palm Pilot's 68000 is the MMU; Linux can operate 
quite nicely with kernel-based FPU emulation, if slowly.  And yes,
from what one's heard, the SA110 lacks an FPU.

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Jeffery "Taper" Wickel                             
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