On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsep...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 12/12/2012 08:54 PM, Robert Dewar wrote: >> >> On 12/12/2012 2:52 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote: >> >>> And as usual: If you use an almost 30 years old architecture, why >>> would you need the latest-and-greatest compiler technology? >>> Seriously... >> >> >> Well the embedded folk often end up with precisely this dichotomy :-) >> But if no sign of 386 embedded chips, then reasonable to deprecate > > > I've never heard about them before, nor do I know how far spread their > products are, however these folks seem to be producing i386-SoCs > http://www.dmp.com.tw/ > esp. this one > http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/vortex86sx/
I've never heard of them either, but according to the manual ftp://ftp.dmp.com.tw/DMP_Vortex86_Series_Software_Programming_Reference_091216.pdf page 5, the Vortex86* products are 486 compatible. That being said, one that same webpage there is http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/m6117d/ which is mentioned as "386SX" compatible. However, the above PDF, again page 5, says "The Vortex86 System-On-Chip (SoC) family was originally designed to provide product migration path to the existing user of the DMP M6117D SoC, a 40 MHz x86 SoC introduced to the market in the early 1990s that reached end-of-life in 2007." -- Janne Blomqvist
