On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 01:37:04PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: > I say this because the original pentium didn't introduce a lot of new > features other than the two pipelines for which you only need some insn > scheduling that's fully compatible with the 486, and IIRC wasn't sold > nearly as well as the various flavours of the 486. > > In other words, if you use 486-compatible instructions and pentium > scheduling, you're already taking almost full advantage of the pentium. > It makes therefore little sense to group the original pentium with the > later architectures.
The problem with this is the binary compatibility with other distributions, and the availability (or more likely, not) of third party binary-only software built against 386 versions of libs. Breaking at 686+ would mean that people with reasonably capable Pentium/MMX machines (say a P200MMX) would likely be unable to use such software. Cheers, Nick -- Nick Phillips -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] You feel a whole lot more like you do now than you did when you used to.
