Re: [tlug] pricing on machine for sale

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Thu, 06 May 2004 01:51:17 +0900, Edward Middleton
<edwardmiddleton@example.com> wrote:

> I think Linus felt the 286 command set was too severely limited to be
> worth the effort of supporting.

I don't think it was so much the instruction set as the improved protected
mode and V86 mode available with the 386+. Not to mention the 32-bit
registers...

-- 
G. Stewart   --   gstewart@example.com -- gstewart@example.com
Registered Linux user #284683 (Slackware 9.0, Linux 2.6.5)
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#define BITCOUNT(x)     (((BX_(x)+(BX_(x)>>4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F) % 255)
#define  BX_(x)         ((x) - (((x)>>1)&0x77777777)
                             - (((x)>>2)&0x33333333) 
                             - (((x)>>3)&0x11111111))

                -- really weird C code to count the number of bits in a word

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