From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, Adam Osuchowski <adwol@zonk.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: Is 386 processor still supported?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:11:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496F988D.2010601@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0901151437230.5737@ftp.linux-mips.org>
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>
> You can actually escape the FPU emulator if you have a proper computer
> (an i386/80287 combo, anyone? ;) -- we've got it right actually :) ), but
> the rest and overall I agree with you. And I think i386-class cores can
> be still seen in some embedded applications, so there may be non-epsilon
> interest yet.
>
I did run Linux way back when on a 16 MHz 80386/80387 combo. All the
memory was on the ISA bus, too. It ran at a whopping 0.57 BogoMIPS, and
we still used it as a server.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-15 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-08 12:03 Is 386 processor still supported? Adam Osuchowski
2009-01-08 13:05 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-08 13:24 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-08 13:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-08 14:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-08 14:21 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-08 14:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-08 15:04 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-08 15:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13 1:06 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 12:36 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-15 13:22 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 13:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-15 14:15 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 14:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 9:00 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-16 10:13 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-16 11:18 ` Andrey Panin
2009-01-16 13:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-15 14:20 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-15 14:37 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2009-01-15 14:25 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-15 14:44 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-01-15 20:11 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-01-15 14:46 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-01-08 16:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-08 16:27 ` Andi Kleen
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