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Date:      Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:27:33 -0500
From:      "Frank J. Laszlo" <laszlof@vonostingroup.com>
To:        Christer Hermansson <mail@chdevelopment.se>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: i386 do not support i386
Message-ID:  <4384FAE5.40703@vonostingroup.com>
In-Reply-To: <43850140.4000005@chdevelopment.se>
References:  <43850140.4000005@chdevelopment.se>

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Christer Hermansson wrote:

> Hi.
>
> FreeBSD 6.0R don't support 386 processors according to the release 
> notes, maybe it's time to change the name of the i386 platform to the 
> x86 platform.
>
>
Do you realize how many things depend on the platform name being i386? 
Just thinking of ports alone, I cound probably name a "few." Not very 
important, but a huge hastle to switch over.

-Frank




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