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.