Re: bzip vs gzip
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 04:17:51PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> A similar argument can be made about pentium-optimized .debs: although
> almost most computers are now pentium or better (can one even buy less
> than a pentiumII in the shops nowadays?) we still continue to compile for
> 386, allowing Debian to run out of the box on 386en and 486en. IMHO this
> is a Good Thing.
Not start a seperate thread and all, but the pentium optimized code
still runs on non-pentium (386,486) systems, just not with the
performance boost, iirc.
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