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Re: matlab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Sit)
Fri Sep 13 11:47:01 1996
To: Daniel P Kamalic <pocky@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Sep 1996 11:41:29 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 11:46:46 EDT
From: Eric Sit <esit@MIT.EDU>
Yes, I'm running it on a pentium 120 with 48 megs of ram.
Perhaps its because its for linux. I remember when they had
the linux libraries for netscape-3.0 in the bsd locker, it
didn't work very well.
Eric
>
> > Hi,
> > Is matlab supposed to work for netbsd 1.1?
> > Crashes everytime i run it.
>
>
> Are you using a machine without a math coprocessor? I believe the
> Matlab binaries on Athena are for Linux, and I know that NetBSD's fpu
> emulation isn't as complete as Linux's, so things will crash. Linux matlab
> never worked right on my 486sx type machine.
>
>
> -Dan
>
