Re: what can i do with a 486?

deeptech71@gmail.com wrote:
> Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>> deeptech71@gmail.com wrote:
>>> 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?)
>> I would try to boot 4.11-R before investing any more time trying to boot 
>> 5.x or 6.x.  Legacy support is still intact in 4.x and, if it does boot, 
>> you can provide complete dmesg and pciconf outputs.
>>
> 
> What is this? It caught my eye.
> 
>     npx0: 387 emulator

Proof that the computer has no FPU and is therefore not supported by 5.2 
and numerically later releases.
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