3 Jun
2013
3 Jun
'13
12:51 p.m.
On 3 June 2013 20:13, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
Whose? You've trimmed it so much that no attribution is left. I
certainly didn't say that.
The i80386 is
ancient PeeCee shit.
Attitudes like yours are why NetBSD is driving itself into the ground.
But NetBSD has not dropped 386 support, not AFAIK. Only the Linux
kernel 3.8 and later has.
You don't see it in mass-market computer stores so
it doesn't exist, or
some such.
Man, the 386 hasn't been in computer stores for nearly twenty years.
I know of someone - within the last, oh, year or so -
with whom I was
corresponding. This person is (was) developing new hardware with a
'386 CPU on it. Brand new chips. Quite possibly a 386 core in a
larger chip, I don't know, but to software it's an 80386 CPU.
Then they chose very poorly, because it is an inefficient, obsolete,
power-hungry, hot, slow chip in the C21.
Intel discontinued the chip six years ago now, in 2007:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/18/intel_cans_386_486_960_cpus/
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