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Im scared of any floating point differences – to ensure ultimate emulation perfection, can I just turn off floating-point coprocessor emulation in TME to avoid emulation problems?

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Im scared of any floating point differences – to ensure ultimate emulation perfection, can I just turn off floating-point coprocessor emulation in TME to avoid emulation problems?

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Yes, you would have a perfectly emulated Sun3 without a floating point coprocessor, such as one of the original sun3/50’s that came without one, but portions of the NetBSD and SunOS userlands expect a floating point coprocessor, and so what you have isn’t optimally useful.