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Re: 2*(void *) atomic swap?
On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 07:09:04PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 02:46:44PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > > Just for the archive, this effectively means Pentium+. There are
> > > actually 486-class SMP systems.
> >
> > Heh. There are 386-class SMP systems (including some massively parallel
> > ones, some of which even ran open-source operating systems) too.
> >
> > We don't run on any of them.
>
> Clearly we should bring back 80386 support so we can run on those
> Sequent boxes... ;-)
Of course you've got to keep in mind that "massively parallel" is
a relative thing, too. ;-)
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