Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:24:37 +0200 (METDST) | From | Stefan Ring <> | Subject | Re: Cyrix Detection -- NO SMP, please ????? |
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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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