On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:54:01 -0400 (EDT) 
 "Gordon W. Ross" <gwr@netbsd.org> wrote:

 >  > Because, at least on Alpha, it didn't work.
 > 
 > It did when it went in.  (On "mother" at least.)
 > After that, I have no idea....

All I know is that it caused unaligned accesses and single-stepping
didn't work when I tried to use it.  For this reason, the stuff that
CMU wouldn't sign over to FSF went into 1.3.3 as a patch.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>