i486 base architecture

Toshio toshio at tiki-lounge.com
Thu Dec 2 02:50:26 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 17:48 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> ons, 01.12.2004 kl. 03.56 skrev William M. Quarles:
> > What differences between i386 and i486 would become a benefit if the 
> > base architecture was changed from i386 to i486?
> 
> Or to i586? Who are running newish fedora/redhat things on anything
> older than a pentium 1 anyway?
> 
> Sorry if am sounding stupid... But really...

There were several long threads on this in May and June of this year.
Perhaps the entry point most relevant to your question is here:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg00011.html

Read the whole discussion so you know which pieces information were
factual and which were later corrected.

-Toshio
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Toshio <toshio at tiki-lounge.com>
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