That Old I386 on the way out
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That Old I386 on the way out
Darn all my old 386 are about to become useless http://www.pcworld.com/article/2020196/ ... chips.html
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Re: That Old I386 on the way out
Also GCC is now looking at dropping 80386 support. Are there any 80386 left that are operational, and running a modern Linux based distro? It would surprise me. I skipped over the 80386 back in the day and I won't miss it now
I went from a 8086 4.77 MHz (with turbo boost to 8 MHz!) directly to a 80486SX at 25 MHz. I can still recall doing my first C compile on the new machine and spending a good half hour trying to figure out what was going wrong--because on the 8086 the program I had been writing would take many minutes to compile and it compiled in just a few seconds on the 80486. I could just not wrap my head around this and figured it wasn't actually compiling and I had somehow messed up my compiler settings or something
I went from a 8086 4.77 MHz (with turbo boost to 8 MHz!) directly to a 80486SX at 25 MHz. I can still recall doing my first C compile on the new machine and spending a good half hour trying to figure out what was going wrong--because on the 8086 the program I had been writing would take many minutes to compile and it compiled in just a few seconds on the 80486. I could just not wrap my head around this and figured it wasn't actually compiling and I had somehow messed up my compiler settings or something
Re: That Old I386 on the way out
Well Not Useless as 386 architecture won't be needing or take advantage of what's new coming down the kernel pikes anyway.
Would locked it down when I reached that "Best Setup" for that ole' puppy and keep on using a still very functional setup.
But yep looks like the Kernel has become a huge monster since it's humble beginnings.
And needs to start trimming out the fat and trying to achieve a leaner more manageable entity.
Now if I can just get that kernel compiled for my Osbourne 1 & Amiga 3000....???
Would locked it down when I reached that "Best Setup" for that ole' puppy and keep on using a still very functional setup.
But yep looks like the Kernel has become a huge monster since it's humble beginnings.
And needs to start trimming out the fat and trying to achieve a leaner more manageable entity.
Now if I can just get that kernel compiled for my Osbourne 1 & Amiga 3000....???
Re: That Old I386 on the way out
ExactlyOrbmiser wrote:But yep looks like the Kernel has become a huge monster since it's humble beginnings.
And needs to start trimming out the fat and trying to achieve a leaner more manageable entity.
Re: That Old I386 on the way out
Don't worry about Linux dropping the 386. I got a copy of Windows 3.11 and MSDOS 5 I'll let you have for cheap.