On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 08:15:05PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: | On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:06:00PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: | > If we really want to split i386 in 'compatible' and 'fast', the i686 border | > makes sense because users who care about speed probably bought the machine | > during the last two years and those should be i686 compatible. | | i686 has been common for 6 years now (1997 P2/K6), so its hardly just in | the past two years. ;) I agree the split should be at the i686 border | assuming this doesn't harm athlon systems.
What about the Via C3? That was introduced not too long ago, runs moderately quickly (~1GHz) with low power consumption, but IIRC doesn't support the i686 instruction set. Cameron.
