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Re: 80386 support



On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 02:45:53PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> http://www.NetBSD.org/changes/changes-5.0.html#port-i386
> > Remove support for 80386 level CPUs. PR port-i386/36163. [ad 20071115] 

nobody seems to care.  gcc started emitting floating point insructions
that MATH_EMULATE couldn't handle as early as NetBSD-3.0 .

I think reintroduction of an 80386 port with the necessary feature-
stripping and minimization would be a good exercise, but it could happen
on just about any platform.  (vax, pmax, and various 68k ports
immediately come to mind.)

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