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> I'm still running an old 100 MHz Pentium and using it on a daily basis.<BR><BR>
There was a recent thread on the gcc lists about this.<BR>
Fedora 11 requires Pentium ("586").<BR>
Fedora 12 requires Pentium Pro ("686").<BR>
Various distros also use xz/lzma instead of gzip.<BR>
But OpenBSD sticks with gzip for perf on old machines.<BR>
Our .deb files use lzma, if the machine building them has the tools.<BR>
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>> Wow. What for? And with Modula-3? What OS?<BR><BR>
- Jay<BR><BR>
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From: jay.krell@cornell.edu<BR>To: hendrik@topoi.pooq.com; m3devel@elegosoft.com<BR>Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:22:21 +0000<BR>Subject: Re: [M3devel] 386?486?586?686?etc.?<BR><BR>
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Wow. What for? And with Modula-3? What OS?<BR>I think Pentium will be ok.<BR>I think ultimately, if people really need, we should have separate targets.<BR>As I've been saying, like: I386_FREEBSD_USERTHREADS, I586_FREEBSD, etc.<BR> Esp. to enable easier "release engineering", such as when we do more cross builds,<BR> adding new targets will be cheaper. But we'd want some sort of system<BR> where if nobody downloads and installs and minimally tests a release, it is<BR> in some low grade classification.<BR> Certain ones we'd test automatically, like whatever we have available in Hudson.<BR> <BR> -Jay<BR> <BR>> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 22:58:48 -0500<BR>> From: hendrik@topoi.pooq.com<BR>> To: m3devel@elegosoft.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] 386?486?586?686?etc.?<BR>> <BR>> On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 11:59:11PM +0000, Jay K wrote:<BR>> > <BR>> > Any opinions/counter-opinions on which processors we should support?<BR>> > <BR>> > Presumably it doesn't vary per platform.<BR>> > <BR>> > Like, it wouldn't be Linux/586 and FreeBSD/486 or such.<BR>> > <BR>> > Unless maybe there is clear data about what the kernels support?<BR>> > <BR>> > The atomic stuff is pushing things to i586.<BR>> > I believe before 486 and possibly 386 worked.<BR>> > <BR>> > 686 is probably reasonable.<BR>> > <BR>> > I think it is Pentium II or Pentium Pro or newer, stuff like 15 years old already.<BR>> <BR>> I'm still running an old 100 MHz Pentium and using it on a daily basis.<BR>> <BR>> Debian has dropped support for the 386 with, as far as I know, no <BR>> complaints.<BR>> <BR>> -- hendrik.<BR> </body>
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