From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:12:22 +0000 From: Uriel To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 386 Message-ID: <20051030201222.GD23235@server4.lensbuddy.com> References: <6e35c0620510292241q4efd9e48h8b60cae7c3d63744@mail.gmail.com> <96c9f29acdd5daee1e5b461fb3a7fd26@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <96c9f29acdd5daee1e5b461fb3a7fd26@plan9.bell-labs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a23054b4-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 03:02:34PM -0500, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > Seems to me the concensus on this list is that we > should keep the support so that Plan 9 will continue > to run on all the broken non-Intel hardware clones > and emulators. Do really those emulators and clones require 386 support? From this thread my conclusion was that it is not an issue. I seriously doubt requiring Pentium would be a problem for most emulators or recent embedded hardware. Hell, qemu(the only emulator that matters this days as far as Plan 9 is concerned) can even emulate x86_64: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/status.html uriel