[M3devel] 386?486?586?686?etc.?

[Jay K]

Wow. What for? And with Modula-3? What OS?

I think Pentium will be ok.

I think ultimately, if people really need, we should have separate targets.

As I've been saying, like: I386_FREEBSD_USERTHREADS, I586_FREEBSD, etc.

 Esp. to enable easier "release engineering", such as when we do more cross builds,

  adding new targets will be cheaper. But we'd want some sort of system

  where if nobody downloads and installs and minimally tests a release, it is

  in some low grade classification.

  Certain ones we'd test automatically, like whatever we have available in Hudson.

 

 -Jay
 
> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 22:58:48 -0500
> From: hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] 386?486?586?686?etc.?
> 
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 11:59:11PM +0000, Jay K wrote:
> > 
> > Any opinions/counter-opinions on which processors we should support?
> > 
> > Presumably it doesn't vary per platform.
> > 
> > Like, it wouldn't be Linux/586 and FreeBSD/486 or such.
> > 
> > Unless maybe there is clear data about what the kernels support?
> > 
> > The atomic stuff is pushing things to i586.
> > I believe before 486 and possibly 386 worked.
> > 
> > 686 is probably reasonable.
> > 
> > I think it is Pentium II or Pentium Pro or newer, stuff like 15 years old already.
> 
> I'm still running an old 100 MHz Pentium and using it on a daily basis.
> 
> Debian has dropped support for the 386 with, as far as I know, no 
> complaints.
> 
> -- hendrik.
 		 	   		  
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