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



* Colin Walters 

| On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 03:52, Branden Robinson wrote:
| 
| > I believe it would be a mistake to kill off support for the 80386 chip.
| 
| Well, we're limited by what we can sanely support.  After all, we don't
| support running Debian on a 286.  The 386 is really in the same class
| nowadays, in my opinion anyways.  

386 has protected mode, 286 doesn't.  That makes a bit of a
difference.

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