[PATCH] Convert checks for PC98 support from platform #ifdefs to configure flag

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Fri Dec 18 15:16:27 PST 2009


Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Default remains the same - on for most OS'es on i386 (except Solaris),
>> off for everyone else.   Can be manually toggled via --enable-pc98 or
>> --disable-pc98.
>>
> 
> maybe you could put come commentary somewhere in the code describing
> what is PC98 for people disinformed like me.

That would require me to know, but I'm in the disinformed bunch.   I
vaguely remember it being a standard used in Japanese PC's that never
caught on in the rest of the world - which of the choices in Wikipedia
makes it sound more like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_PC-9801 than
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_System_Design_Guide#PC_98 - hopefully
someone else knows.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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