[TUHS] mental architecture models, Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?

[Dave Horsfall]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, Adam Thornton wrote:

> Indeed, S/390 Linux ran just fine on machines without IEEE floating 
> point.  Which meant that for years I had to jam `use integer` at the top 
> of any Perl I ran, because otherwise any Perl arithmetic at all would go 
> through the software float routines, which was very painful on little 
> machines, such as a P/390.

When it comes down to it, why would a kernel need floating point?  Or are 
you talking about the distribution instead of the OS?

-- Dave