4 Sep
2014
4 Sep
'14
12:58 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Roe Peterson <roeapeterson at gmail.com> wrote:
Now _that_ is incredibly coincidental, and solves my problem...
I have a complete QED993 board with IO panel. I did not know it was identical to the
93.
I was aware that the 993 lacked floating point hardware when I bought it. After applying
a bunch of patches, and hacking a few files, I managed to get enough of 2.11bsd running to
run the chess program. Floating point in user space fails completely, however.
I plan to finish the rest one day soon, and release a software floating point 2.11bsd.
I assume the QED993 was sold as a drop in replacement for the M8981
11/93 CPU board (minus FP support) and was designed to be compatible
with the existing DEC console panel.
I did make an attempt at rebuilding the 2.11BSD kernel with the
patches for CPUs without FP support but was unable to get anything to
work. I didn't do any hacking of my own other than apply existing
patches. If you got it to work at all it would be good to document
what you had to do.
-Glen