From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 16 6:50:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E884437B698 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 06:50:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA37472; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:50:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Will Andrews Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver , Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU References: <200101160947.f0G9lKs11014@mobile.wemm.org> <20010116092843.A1858@puck.firepipe.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 16 Jan 2001 15:50:03 +0100 In-Reply-To: Will Andrews's message of "Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:28:43 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will Andrews writes: > I don't think it's worth the effort. By the time 5.0-RELEASE goes out, > the 386 will have been around for over 10 years (actually I think it has > already reached that point and gone beyond). It's already more than 15 years old - Intel introduced the 80386 in 1985, and Compaq started shipping 80386-based systems (to IBM's dismay) in 1986. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message