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Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore



On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:25:52PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> As i686 is already like ten(?) years old,

I was intrigued by this statement and went to look it up.

CPU:		Released:
-------------------------
80386		1985
80486		1989
Pentium		1993
Pentium Pro	1995

> I would say 99.9% [1] machines that run sarge are 686 and higher
> 
> [1] 90% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Right. I can't say I have many <i686 machines, but I can certainly think of
at least one i586 and one i486 that I'd like to be able upgrade to 3.1 when
it comes out.

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