Quoting Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsep...@googlemail.com>:
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 am not 100% sure, but from looking at the documents on that page I
think it is based on the i486 rather than on the i386.
My impression (although I am not quite up to date with the current
situation) is that many (most?) x86 CPUs used in smaller embedded
systems are i48&/i586 hybrids, i.e. they are i486-compatible and
also supports some (but not all) features of the i586.
