Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:07:12PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Colin Walters
>
> | On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 03:52, Branden Robinson wrote:
> |
> | > I believe it would be a mistake to kill off support for the 80386 chip.
> |
> | Well, we're limited by what we can sanely support. After all, we don't
> | support running Debian on a 286. The 386 is really in the same class
> | nowadays, in my opinion anyways.
>
> 386 has protected mode, 286 doesn't. That makes a bit of a
> difference.
It does. It's just that the 286 is a 16-bit CPU and its protected mode
MMU mode offers only segmentation, no paging.
Cheers,
Emile.
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