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Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore



On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:57:57AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote:

 > and remember that many embedded processors still use 486 and 586
 > based chips, and some 386.  Lossing 386 might be acceptable in the
 > embedded market (many 386 based systems have too little memory to run
 > Debian) but loosing 486 and 586 would mean that Debian was no longer
 > an option for embedded systems which would be a great loss.

 Do these people really use what we put out the door, or do they prune
 the distribution and recompile with different settings and things like
 that?  In the later case I don't see why our decision should affect
 them.

 -m.



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