On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:43:06PM +0000, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > So why aren't we sill shipping on 286 machines? > > Because we never had ? We have dropped support for i386, but only > a fraction of i386 had a MMU and so were able to run Linux, and this > change was forced upon us by the rest of the world.
? All i386s had MMUs. Not many had FPUs, but that can be emulated. The 286 did not have a suitable MMU. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
