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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 20:04:39 -0400
From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 386
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 07:45:50PM -0400, John DeGood wrote:
> > Old hardware, let it RIP. Or use it for door stops, or performance art.
> 
> The 60 MHz Pentium was introduced in March 1993.  If we drop 386/486 and 
> require at least a Pentium, Plan 9 will still run on virtually every 
> desktop and laptop sold in the past 10 years.

The concern has for sometime been embedded hardware, not
desktop hardware.  But my impression is that most embedded
applications have shifted away even from the 486 as the
various Pentium clones have become more popular.