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Cc: Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>,
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Subject: Re: genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, John Baldwin wrote:

> My comment is to just use 4.x (seriously).  A true 386 is going to be quite
> slow and the overhead of many things added that work well on newer processors
> is going to be very painful on a 386 (probably on a 486 as well).  4.x runs
> fine on a 386 and should support all the hardware you can stick into a
> machine with an 80386 CPU.

Unless, of course, you plan to put it on a network.  I doubt that 4.x is 
up to date with respect to security patches.

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Nate Eldredge
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