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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:16:03 +0000
Subject: Re: bit fields && data tearing
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To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>, One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On 09/04/2014 12:42 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> 
> Or we could give up on the Alpha.
> 

If Alpha is turning into Voyager (kept alive only as a museum piece, but
actively causing problems) then please let's kill it.

	-hpa