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SubjectRe: Cyrix Detection -- NO SMP, please ?????
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, David Weinehall wrote:

> I, for one, would be very disappointed if i386 support disappeared; it'd
> remove a lot of debugging possibilities for me, such as ESDI, etc. And why
> would we dump i386? It's not particularly hard to maintain...
>
> There are a lot of 386's out there, and throwing that userbase out is
> plain stupid, considering their other option is DOS...
>

I think everybody using a 386 on linux is using it in a way similar to
yours. I don't want to be using netscape on a 386 with 4MB RAM. I also
think that it will not be a big problem to compile the new kernel with
i386 support and install it on your old machine.

cheers


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