Re: Is 386 processor still supported?

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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