2 Jun
2013
2 Jun
'13
4:48 p.m.
On 06/02/2013 07:04 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
You do realise that kernel 3.8 explicitly dropped
support for 80386?
It's now 80486 or above.
That was a really stupid thing to do. I suspect it'll be "undone" at
some
point.
The actual i386 is long dead; it came out nearly 30y
ago. It's
completely dead in the embedded space - ARM or Geode offer far better
performance, price:performance and performance/Watt.
80386, oddly, is far from "long dead".
If your perspective is only for desktoppy-things sold in retail stores,
sure I can see that, but it's as common now as it ever was (which is to say
"moderately so") in the embedded world, and is still currently produced and
sold. (whether that's a good thing or not is another matter entirely)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA