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Date:      Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:05:09 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC 
Message-ID:  <30911.979499109@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:58:23 %2B0200." <200101141858.f0EIwOI24920@gratis.grondar.za> 

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In message <200101141858.f0EIwOI24920@gratis.grondar.za>, Mark Murray writes:
>> There is at least a full year until the first semi-reliable 5.0
>> release is a possibility.
>> 
>> 4.x-stable as at least two years in it yet.
>> 
>> I think it's the time to throw i386 over the railing and lower the
>> waterline a fair bit on -current.
>
>Does it make any sense at all to make 80386 a separate platform
>a'la pc98/alpha/ia64? Do enough people care about it?

No it doesn't.  I think you'll find that running 5.x in less than
32MB is going to be painfull or impossible in the first place.

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