From: Jake H. <jh...@an...> - 2004-10-31 03:49:50
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Maritimus wrote: > The NexGen Nx586, AMD/Cyrix 5x86s, 486s etc, don't have it at all. Not that > Syllable can currently run on those because of a couple of lines of Kurt's > i586 assembler enthusiasm, but someone's going to want to sooner or later :) Besides the code which assumes the presence of the cpuid instruction, is there any other assembly language code that anyone knows of that is keeping it from working on 486s? I know how to fix the cpuid code to detect if the machine doesn't support cpuid, but how many people these days have access to a 486-class machine with math coprocessor that they want to run Syllable on? If you do, let me know and I may be able to work something out. Otherwise, it's probably never going to get fixed. -Jake |