On 11/23/2013 07:40 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
I doubt it was an actual 80386. For some years the minimum CPU requirement has been i686, which was Pentium Pro or greater. More recently the additional requirement of a CPU with PAE capabilities. I rather doubt that a processor that ran RH9 (a decade or more ago) would have PAE, though I have been wrong before (once or twice! :) :)
I've got a machine that started life running RH7.3, was migrated to CentOS3 and is still running it (though hopefully not much longer - I am retiring the machine before it decides that a decade plus of service is long enough and dies on its own). The motherboard BIOS date is 05/15/2003 and the dual CPUs are 3Ghz Xeons with hyperthreading and, yes, PAE.
That isn't even the oldest running system here. That honor goes to a system currently with CentOS5, a motherboard BIOS date of 03/29/2000, 384 MBytes of memory, running a Celeron 500 MHz CPU with PAE (also facing retirement in the near future).
:)