W2HX via cctalk wrote: > ?Hi friends. I am putting together a PDP-11 set up. i have a few CPUs > available to me, a 11/23+, an 11/73 and I also have available to me an 11/83, > M8190-AE . > > > I would like to try to run as many different OS's as may interest me, > including some unixes as possible (bsd...etc). My question is, are there any > OSes that need the floating point option? > > > Another question is, would I see any improvement in performance with the FPU > compared to without it? Or does the application running need to be something > like fortran to see any perceivable difference? > > > Thanks
2.11BSD needs it. There is an peace of emulator software in it, but as far as I know it never really worked. Regards, Holm -- Technik Service u. Handel Tiffe, www.tsht.de, Holm Tiffe, Freiberger Straße 42, 09600 Oberschöna, USt-Id: DE253710583 i...@tsht.de Fax +49 3731 74200 Tel +49 3731 74222 Mobil: 0172 8790 741