From: Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 386
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:31:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40510291531k192e4bcenb4e556e137ea14fa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4363EEDC.6090806@lanl.gov>
I´d say that it´d be even reasonable to assume a pentium at least.
On 10/29/05, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
>
> > I'd actually like to go further and only support processors
> > that have the CPUID instruction (that includes the plain
> > Pentium otherwise my home machine would need to be replaced).
>
> I'm for it. The 386 is dead or should be. Even the crappy embedded stuff
> nowadays is at minimum a 486, and usually newer.
>
> Old hardware, let it RIP. Or use it for door stops, or performance art.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-29 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-29 15:08 Russ Cox
2005-10-29 15:26 ` Lucio De Re
2005-10-29 19:07 ` William Josephson
2005-10-29 20:01 ` jmk
2005-10-29 20:06 ` Lucio De Re
2005-10-29 21:07 ` Uriel
2005-10-29 21:18 ` jmk
2005-10-29 21:51 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-29 22:31 ` Francisco J Ballesteros [this message]
2005-10-30 0:50 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-30 5:41 ` Jack Johnson
2005-10-30 16:15 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-30 20:02 ` jmk
2005-10-30 20:12 ` Uriel
2005-10-30 20:34 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-10-30 20:52 ` jmk
2005-10-30 21:15 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-10-30 22:56 ` jmk
2005-10-31 0:20 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-31 0:49 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-31 21:26 ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-10-30 21:27 ` Mike Haertel
2005-10-31 10:06 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-10-30 22:11 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-30 21:16 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2005-10-30 21:53 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-29 23:45 ` John DeGood
2005-10-30 0:04 ` William Josephson
2005-10-30 12:59 ` Brantley Coile
2005-10-30 1:14 ` geoff
2005-10-29 20:22 ` Christopher Nielsen
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