linux-kernel - Re: Is 386 processor still supported?

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Message-ID: <496F988D.2010601@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:11:57 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
CC:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@...-owl.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Adam Osuchowski <adwol@...k.pl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: Is 386 processor still supported?

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> 
>  You can actually escape the FPU emulator if you have a proper computer 
> (an i386/80287 combo, anyone? ;) -- we've got it right actually :) ), but 
> the rest and overall I agree with you.  And I think i386-class cores can 
> be still seen in some embedded applications, so there may be non-epsilon 
> interest yet.
> 

I did run Linux way back when on a 16 MHz 80386/80387 combo.  All the 
memory was on the ISA bus, too.  It ran at a whopping 0.57 BogoMIPS, and 
we still used it as a server.

	-hpa
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