Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3

Posted Jan 17, 2020 14:59 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3 by dvdeug
Parent article: Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3

> Which isn't much a problem because the kernel cares about backward compatibility and doesn't go around knocking off old hardware.

The kernel dropped support for 386 years ago, despite it being the first CPU it ran on.