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Which is why i80386 was dropped even though memory instructions could be prefixed with "LOCK" to make them atomic, so cmpxchg equivalent could be done. So drop
by johnklos 1y ago
Which is why i80386 was dropped even though memory instructions could be prefixed with "LOCK" to make them atomic, so cmpxchg equivalent could be done.
So dropping the i80386 wasn't necessary, and saying it was because of the lack of atomic instructions was an excuse, because the real reason was that they didn't want to keep i80386 atomics around.