From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:22:45 -0700 From: Christopher Nielsen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 386 Message-ID: <20051029202245.GR80710@cassie.foobarbaz.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a12855c6-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I am not, and I know at least FreeBSD cut mainstream support for the 386 a while back, amid much gnashing of teeth. There might be someone, someday that might want to use Plan 9 on 386, but I say support what makes sense; we don't have the resources to support legacy hardware too far back. On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 11:08:18AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > Is anyone out there using Plan 9 on 386 machines? > I'm just wondering whether it's going to affect anyone > if the default kernels assume they can use some of > the 486 instructions (specifically INVLPG). > > Russ > -- Christopher Nielsen "They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin