Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:57:43 +0200 From: Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> To: Christer Hermansson <mail@chdevelopment.se> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386 do not support i386 Message-ID: <59e2ee810511250557j1b4ff01dsa7e93d3c73a86121@mail.gmail.com>
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> FreeBSD 6.0R don't support 386 processors according to the release > notes, maybe it's time to change the name of the i386 platform to the > x86 platform. 16-bit 8086, 8088, 80186 and 80286 are x86 processors too. 80386 was the first 32-bit processor from Intel, and it had many other significant architectural changes. I believe the i386 architecture name is righteous for 80386 successors, even without the 80386 particular support. That's just my IMHO.
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