From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 23 11:45:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07862 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:45:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07852 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:45:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA14766; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:44:53 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd014683; Mon Nov 23 12:44:47 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA25401; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:44:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811231944.MAA25401@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model To: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no (Marius Bendiksen) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:44:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jdp@polstra.com, joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981123144427.00b40940@mail.scancall.no> from "Marius Bendiksen" at Nov 23, 98 02:44:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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