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First post, by another_808286

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As I understand, the most recent arache versions (https://www.glennmcc.org/arachne/) are provided either optimised for a 387 system, or general purpose one for the 8086. I have a 286 system with an FPU and am curious to see if there would be much of a performance difference using the FPU and maybe taking advantage of a few of the instructions available on the 286 but not 8086. The sourcecode is available but I don't see a clear way to compile it for 287 and I was wondering if anybody has experience with doing this in the past or may know of how to do it. I can understand a certain amount of code, but don't really know stuff like the structure of large multi-file codebases, so I am a bit confused by Arachne's code.

Reply 1 of 3, by Jo22

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Hi. I had a similar problem last year.

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Reply 2 of 3, by another_808286

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Jo22 wrote on 2023-10-13, 05:14:

Hi. I had a similar problem last year.

Ah, this is great, I see someone went ahead and recompiled the files:) Vielen Dank!

I notice the one who recompiled said that they weren't sure if the TCP/IP stack still worked, did you find that out?