From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4365633A.1070005@lanl.gov> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:20:10 -0700 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 386 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: a2dc1d30-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > but you get to add code to check and whine if you try to > run the kernel on a 386. well, hell, what's wrong with a good whine now and then ... I think the 'new architecture' maybe was the right way to go? I'm just not sure it's a good idea to screw the 486 systems over. I wish they would all go away, but they won't; I found to my horror I was using one and didnt' even know it! ron