obsolete code must die
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Anyone concerned about the current size of the kernel source code? I am, and
No. Since you are up to date with the latest in everything, I cannot see why you would be concerned about a few megabytes in your gigabyte drives.
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i386, i486
The Pentium processor has been around since 1995. Support for these older
No. Both of my cheap on-site systems for occasional access are 486s. Why would I spend money for a system that is hardly ever used?
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ISA bus, MCA bus, EISA bus
PCI is the defacto standard. Get rid ofCONFIG_BLK_DEV_ISAPNP,CONFIG_ISAPNP, etc
No. There are still plenty of unique ISA cards around.
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MFM/RLL/XT/ESDI hard drive support
Does anyone still *have* an RLL drive that works? At the very least get rid
OK, I haven't seen one of these for nearly 10 years.
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parallel/serial/game ports
More controversial to remove this, since they are *still* in pretty wide use -- but USB and IEEE 1394 are the way to go. No ifs ands or buts.
Send me the funds to replace my laser printers please.
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a.out
Who needs it anymore. I love ELF.
OK, everything that I had in a.out was converted within a year of ELF's introduction.
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I really think doing a clean up is worthwhile. Maybe while looking for stuff
You left out all the old non-IDE CDROM drives.
<PS. thanks for the testing of my new archive>
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I really think doing a clean up is worthwhile. Maybe while looking for stuff
You left out all the old non-IDE CDROM drives.
And also UP systems. I've got 2 SMP boxes here now. Why not remove support for any system with less than 2 processors? ;o)
I'll just have to replace my 486 firewall with the dual 486 in the closet. ;o)
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