Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 23:40:07 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: doscmd removal Message-ID: <p06020407bc7ae3146f55@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040315034449.GA26211@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <20040314102936.GA23469@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403141357170.7997-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20040315034449.GA26211@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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At 2:44 PM +1100 3/15/04, Tim Robbins wrote: >On Sun, Mar 14, 2004, Julian Elischer wrote: > >I doubt there will be much of an argument by that time. AMD and >Intel have already decided that V86 mode is not worth the effort >to implement fully on their 64-bit CPUs - anyone who wants to use >V86 mode (and therefore doscmd) has to run them in 32-bit mode. So you are not saying that 'doscmd' is universally broken, so much as FreeBSD is now running on more hardware platforms where doscmd serves no purpose? (disclaimer: I don't care whether doscmd stays in the base, or if it becomes a i386-only port. I'm just wondering why it came up as a topic right now...). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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