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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:11:57 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
CC: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: Is 386 processor still supported?
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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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