From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 386
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:26:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c260f2812ac356d1b62f776dbb57db12@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0510290808j32b3aabeuf912d35a2b7425a8@mail.gmail.com>
> Is anyone out there using Plan 9 on 386 machines?
> I'm just wondering whether it's going to affect anyone
> if the default kernels assume they can use some of
> the 486 instructions (specifically INVLPG).
I think that's a slippery slope. My AUTH server already crashes
whenever I forget that AWK uses floating point arithmetic.
Think of it this way: if one of Plan 9's strength is portability
across different architectures, it would be nice if this was
consistent. By all means add the 486 instructions, but somehow allow
some documented way around it.
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-29 15:26 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 [this message]
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
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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