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To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture
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Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> writes:
> At present, there is NO any processor which is ONLY 32-bits.

All the world is not a PC.  There are still 32-bit x86-based embedded or
small-form-factor systems, such as the soekris net5501 and net6501,
which are widely used in the BSD community.

DES
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