Hi, On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:07:12PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Colin Walters > > | On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 03:52, Branden Robinson wrote: > | > | > I believe it would be a mistake to kill off support for the 80386 chip. > | > | Well, we're limited by what we can sanely support. After all, we don't > | support running Debian on a 286. The 386 is really in the same class > | nowadays, in my opinion anyways. > > 386 has protected mode, 286 doesn't. That makes a bit of a > difference. It does. It's just that the 286 is a 16-bit CPU and its protected mode MMU mode offers only segmentation, no paging. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl