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



On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:15, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:

> I'd drop the sub-pentiums (i.e. 386 and 486) entirely. Not that my vote
> would count...

Making the cut at the Pentium as opposed to i486 would have some
benefits; the Pentium introduced some new instructions such as cmpxchg8b
that are actually used by some software, e.g. gstreamer.



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