Comments on: Cleaning years of cruft https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2006/11/06/cleaning-years-of-cruft/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:28:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Joe "Floid" Kanowitz https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2006/11/06/cleaning-years-of-cruft/comment-page-1/#comment-3060 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:28:47 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.php/2006/11/06/1956.html#comment-3060 It may be a little late to note this, but isn’t “PC-32” NEC’s trademark for something that may or may not even be x86-based?

Would “ibmpc” or “ibmbios” or something be too much of a mouthful if we’re trying to leave the CPU arch out of the MACHINE field?

[Or is it time to get over the hijacking of ‘Personal Computer’ to refer to one particular type thereof?]

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