From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Subject: Re: Off Topic: Request for Old Hardware Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 12:23:30 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: netdev To: whiteheadm@acm.org Return-path: Received: from eddie.linux-mips.org ([148.251.95.138]:42758 "EHLO cvs.linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751308AbaJELXc (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2014 07:23:32 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:55176 "EHLO localhost.localdomain" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S27006668AbaJELXamTtr7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2014 13:23:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, tedheadster wrote: > If you have an ancient dual-processor 80486 system, please email me > off-list. Yes, a few of these did indeed exist. The 82489DX discrete APIC was originally designed for 80486 SMP systems and Intel's Multiprocessor Specification explicitly provided for such configurations. Unfortunately I was never able to track down such a system to experiment with it and possibly make it work with Linux. Good luck with finding one these days! Maciej