Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4
Am Sat, 16 Jul 2022 11:26:44 -0400
schrieb Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com>:
> Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? I ask
> because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 (1985) to
> i686 Pentium 4 and newer.
It would be interesting what the benefit of that is. You may compile
amd64 packages with support for SSE, SSE2, etc., this won't break
something, but for i386 (only a small amount of computers really needs
that) this will make many of the current usages of i386 impossible.
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