4 Jun
2013
4 Jun
'13
10:34 a.m.
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 09:28:58PM -0500, Tothwolf wrote:
That is utterly unfair. There's only a very limited pool of CPU experts with
kernel-hacking talent and their attention needs to be focussed on more
important things such as supporting new CPUs as they come out. Prioritising and
not working on your pet project is not laziness.
If you want to divert their attention to supporting the 386 despite its many
deficiencies that make it incredibly difficult to support on a modern operating
system, I'm sure they'll be delighted to do so on receipt of your very generous
donation of piles of cash. See http://netbsd.org/donations/
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Jochen Kunz wrote:
[...]
At least: One
idea was to create a special i80386 port of NetBSD that
supported the i80386 and only the i80386. Quite simple, given the superbe
multi platform support of NetBSD. But nobody found it woth the work to keep
that old i80386 shit alive.
Lazyness.