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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 23:40:07 -0500
To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>,
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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...).

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