Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:44:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no (Marius Bendiksen) Cc: jdp@polstra.com, joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model Message-ID: <199811231944.MAA25401@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981123144427.00b40940@mail.scancall.no> from "Marius Bendiksen" at Nov 23, 98 02:44:27 pm
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> Are you saying that we're going to say to people "Hey, FreeBSD is not > intended to run on anything less than a Pentium, we don't wish to get > involved with anything less, the people out there who're stuck with a 486 > had better go support Linux instead?" Not to mention that Intel has a not-very-publicized macrocell called the 486GX, which is a 486 without an FPU that you can get burnt on a piece of silicon with other macrocells like, oh, say, 2 10/100 ethernet interfaces, a couple of UARTS, a USART for T1, Frame Relay, or DSL, an integrated 8254, and maybe some EEPROM interface hardware... And they *don't* offer a Pentium macrocell for similar uses, since the Pentium is such a lunker. As a router or net connectivity ASIC, this would be hard to beat, expecially if you could throw 8M onto the thing and run a small UNIX-like OS there... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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