I am not, and I know at least FreeBSD cut mainstream support
for the 386 a while back, amid much gnashing of teeth. There
might be someone, someday that might want to use Plan 9 on
386, but I say support what makes sense; we don't have the
resources to support legacy hardware too far back.

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 11:08:18AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> Is anyone out there using Plan 9 on 386 machines?
> I'm just wondering whether it's going to affect anyone
> if the default kernels assume they can use some of
> the 486 instructions (specifically INVLPG).
> 
> Russ
> 

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