On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:47:42AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * GOTO Masanori > > | - NPTL/TLS support. NPTL currently supports i486 and later because > | pthread_spin_trylock uses cmpxchgl instruction (well, it's not > | difficult to support i386, but imagine pthread on i386 with the > | max clock (I recall it was 20MHz?) speed and memory...) > > 33MHz, and ISTR that AMD made a 40MHz version as well. Yup. AMD also made the fastest 486 ever[1], clocked at 133MHz. My first Linux box (also my first Debian box) ran on that chip. [1] to my knowledge -- G. Branden Robinson | It doesn't matter what you are Debian GNU/Linux | doing, emacs is always overkill. branden@debian.org | -- Stephen J. Carpenter http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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