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Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 07:57:26 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] broken floating point exceptions and fpregs
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> x86_64 has been around since 2003, and on nearly every x86 machine for
> the last 8 years.  sse2 has been around since 2001.

Percentages don't cut it for me.  I have one x64 workstation, the rest
of my network is 32-bits.  Including my Internet-facing server running
on VMware ESXi 3.5.

It is unreasonable to expect a community to contribute to the
development of Plan 9 if the goal posts move with the fashions, only
wealthy and/or fickle developers would be allowed to participate.

I am with Kurt (and the NetBSD developers) on this one: history is
precious and painfully acquired skills cannot be thrown away at the
whim of the fashionistas.

++L