On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > 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.
I don't see how that suggestion can possibly be taken seriously. Very few i386 machines have the requisite disk space, memory, and swap space to build large applications in Debian today. -- John
