Re: [MiNT] Mint with a standard Falcon

[joska@nuts.edu (Jo Even Skarstein)]

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:09:32 -0400, Fred Horvat wrote:

> I've not yet upgraded my TT030 RAM yet and am stuck at 4 Meg 
> ST RAM on the machine.  I do have a standard Falcon with 14 
> Meg RAM and a 170 Meg Internal HD.  How is the Falcon with 
> MINT besides being slow?  I do not have an FPU, is one 

MiNT is not slow at all on a stock Falcon, I used MiNT+N.AES for 
a long time on a 4Mb (and later 14Mb) Falcon.

> required? If I did have an FPU would it be used or would have 
> I have to recompile the kernal to take advantage of that 
> option?

FPU is not required, and it's automatically detected if present.


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