Floating Point-How Important to Unix?

[Warren Toomey]

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


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