On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Stephen Stafford wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:25:52PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > What about perusing the INT 6 idea, and going all the way up to i686? > While I support the removal of 386 support, I absolutely and strenuously > object to going to 686. 686 isn't all that old at all (1997 IIRC), and I > use a nunber of 4/586 machines still (I have one 486 which I use for > embedded development and 3 P100 boxen which are used for various things like > CVS server, gateway/firewall, testing various things). Note that my idea was about patching the kernel that so the newer opcodes would be emulated in software. Everything would still work even on a 386, just slower -- and the speed decrease can be removed by running apt-build.
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