david@fundy.ca (David Maxwell) writes:

>Perhaps it's time to update this. Rename it to 

>#options	ADD_NOPS	# For slow (<1993) motherboards

>default	it to commented out and invert the logic where used in the source?

It has nothing to do with motherboards being built before 1993.  I have run
NetBSD with "options DUMMY_NOPS" on several motherboards that are older.
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