Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:03:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Eldredge <nate@thatsmathematics.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> 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: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0909221102100.28284@zeno.ucsd.edu> In-Reply-To: <200909221027.48607.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200909211203.n8LC3hhn090227@fire.js.berklix.net> <200909221027.48607.jhb@freebsd.org>
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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. -- Nate Eldredge nate@thatsmathematics.com
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