Re: Cyrix Detection -- NO SMP, please ?????

david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s)
19 Oct 1998 09:20:26 -0700


In article <linux.kernel.Pine.HPP.3.96.981019132205.13669C-100000@stud3.tuwien.ac.at>,
Stefan Ring <e9725446@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, David Weinehall wrote:
>
>> I, for one, would be very disappointed if i386 support disappeared; it'd
>> remove a lot of debugging possibilities for me, such as ESDI, etc. And why
>> would we dump i386? It's not particularly hard to maintain...
>>
>> There are a lot of 386's out there, and throwing that userbase out is
>> plain stupid, considering their other option is DOS...
>>
>
>I think everybody using a 386 on linux is using it in a way similar to
>yours. I don't want to be using netscape on a 386 with 4MB RAM.

How about netscape on a 386 with 32mb of RAM?

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