Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:11:57 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Is 386 processor still supported? |
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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > You can actually escape the FPU emulator if you have a proper computer > (an i386/80287 combo, anyone? ;) -- we've got it right actually :) ), but > the rest and overall I agree with you. And I think i386-class cores can > be still seen in some embedded applications, so there may be non-epsilon > interest yet. >
I did run Linux way back when on a 16 MHz 80386/80387 combo. All the memory was on the ISA bus, too. It ran at a whopping 0.57 BogoMIPS, and we still used it as a server.
-hpa
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