[cctalk] Old UNIX Systems

We're doing NetBSD and 80386 again? Evil cabal responsible for crimes against computing again? Jason Thorpe and others were talking about fundamental problems continuing 80386 support, what, almost a decade ago (no...the 80386 is not simply an older 80486)? They announced the intention to drop support in 2007, and dropped it in 2009. It was not a secret and it wasn't a smug "buy bigger/faster/stronger" dictate; they still support VAX and a pack of ridiculously obscure mc68k boxes, after all. 80386 support died because no one stepped up to support it, even though proposals were made as to how to do that. Based on that, the core developers made a decision about how to allocate scarce resources, and in 4 years the world has somehow failed to end. If a single person had stepped forward to take on 80386 as a distinct port, it could still be in there. It not like ns32k or mc88k, where getting things going means recreating GCC support, figuring how to jump to ELF, etc. And yet, since 2009, no one has picked up 80386, which pretty much tells you how really important it is in the grand scheme of things. KJ