SYS V R4 - When will it be released for Generic 386 boxes?

[jim frost]

williams at cs.umass.edu writes:

>In article <1989Nov10.180048.24410 at telly.on.ca>, evan at telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes...
>>Everything for V.4 will be done in
>>386 code and will treat the 486 as just a fast 386.
>> 
>Huh?  I thought the 486 WAS just a fast 386 with builtin
>cache and fpu!  No new instructions, modes, etc.

At a minimum, the fpu supports a bunch of functions which the 80387
did not.

jim frost
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