Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:27:17 +0100 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> To: Nate Eldredge <nate@thatsmathematics.com> Cc: Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: genuine cpu I386_CPU kernel support Message-ID: <5311D83C-0DB0-4D10-B2AB-B61FD37178F7@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0909221102100.28284@zeno.ucsd.edu> References: <200909211203.n8LC3hhn090227@fire.js.berklix.net> <200909221027.48607.jhb@freebsd.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0909221102100.28284@zeno.ucsd.edu>
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On 22 Sep 2009, at 19:03, Nate Eldredge wrote: > 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. I don't know if they were all applied on 4.x, but I think at least the older ones are. -- Rui Paulo
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