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Re: remove waitabit() from i386-stub.c


A few weeks ago Stan Shebs writes:

> > This removes the function waitabit() from the i386-stub.
> 
> There was probably a rationale for this at one time, probably
> something to do with giving the user enough time to fire up GDB or
> switch terminals or something.

If memory serves, it was something that John Gilmore hacked in to deal
with a flaky serial port/driver (or something like that, I'm not
completely sure that he or I really knew why this made it work).  In
other words, should be completely vestigial.

This is a somewhat dim memory, so I could be remembering it wrong, but
I agree that the thing to do is to take it out (and in the unlikely
event that someone is still needing it, they can worry about it).

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