Re: i486 base architecture

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:06:21PM -0500, William M. Quarles wrote:
> >The only thing 486 might give is the ability to consign the old 
> >linuxthread stuff to the dustbin of back compatibility.
> 
> I'm guessing that's supposed to be a joke?

No its quite serious. 486 adds a lot of the SMP instructions like XADD that
good threading in user space wants.