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Date:      Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:48:12 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        peter@netplex.com.au, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, alc@cs.rice.edu, tlambert@primenet.com, bakul@torrentnet.com, julian@whistle.com, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: high-efficiency SMP locks - submission for review
Message-ID:  <199906290048.RAA07089@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <31902.930591499@critter.freebsd.dk> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jun 28, 99 07:38:19 pm

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> >The 386, I doubt has it.  There have been a couple of suggestions for ending
> >the support for the 386 as it will simplify some ugly code for emulating
> >kernel-mode write faults etc, but it's never happened.  Apparently the
> >386 is common in some areas still.
> 
> People in the embedded business would kill us.

No lie.  486GX macrocells are cheap, but 386 macrocells are cheaper.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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