Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-13T12:20:15Z

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 2:02 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:27 AM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 11:55 AM David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote:
>
> > > basically 486 but have a few extra instructions - probably just cpuid
> > > and (IIRC) rdtsc.
> > > Designed for low power embedded use they won't ever have been suitable
> > > for a desktop - but are probably fast enough for some uses.
> > > I'm not sure how much keeping 486 support actually costs, 386 was a
> > > PITA - but the 486 fixed most of those issues.
> >
> > Right, we have "last of mohicans" (to date) Intel Quark family of CPUs
> > (486 core + few i586 features).
> > This is for the embedded world and probably not for powerful use.
>
> What is the status of PC/104?

Personally I have no idea, but...

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC/104

...from this we learn about PC/104 consortium on site of which we may
learn about new products:
https://pc104.org/products/vcs-1-pc-104-system-for-precision-robotics-applications/

One and a half years ago, not dead to me.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko