[CentOS] Where is the kernel source code???

Tue Dec 20 02:30:16 UTC 2005
Bryan J. Smith <thebs413 at earthlink.net>

Kevin Krieser <k_krieser at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> This is kind of an issue on the LKML right now.  Not 486's,
> but trying to support large workloads on 32 bit computers
when
> people can go to 64 bit CPUs, for example, where many of
the
> limitations go away.

In reality, the i686 was introduced in 1994.  Almost everyone
implements the i686.  And i686 has a _lot_ of benefits. 
Anything superscalar is almost always i686 compatible (or
close to it).

i586 is clearly genuine Pentium only, at least
performance-wise, and has hacks that run _poorly_ on newer
i686 processors.  Pentium had a lot of bugs, because it was
Intel's first x86 superscalar atempt.

i486 is definitely the "next step down" -- and it's a damn
big step.  ;->


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