On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:05:40PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> This is still a mess. It's better to have one boolean
> per processor, and order the processors by the year
> in which they were most commonly sold.
The information hiding of irrelevant options was one of the
motivations behind that original patch. If I know I have
an AMD Athlon, showing me all the Intel CPUs just gets in the way.
A zillion options in a scrolly list is no better than what
we currently have imo.
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