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Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4



On 2022-07-21 02:03, Marco wrote:
Am Wed, 20 Jul 2022 22:11:08 +0300
schrieb Oskar Skog <oskar@oskog97.com>:

When the x32 port becomes official, the only reason (that I can
imagine) to use the i386 port would be for really old computers.

What is the x32 port?
I haven't heard about that yet.

Seems it is a set of ports for 64 bit amd64 and arm64, etc but with 32 but pointers and integers, so it uses less memory if you have small amount of RAM.

On 64 bit machines it would have the same memory usage as i386 and arm32 but with the extra registers and features that the newer processors support.

Something like that.

Bijan


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