Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 08:40, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 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
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.
David
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