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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA819 ; Mon, 08 Feb 93 07:01:29 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!cq019 From: cq019@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Preston Landers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Will 386bsd run for Pentium machine without pain? Date: 7 Feb 1993 05:53:21 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1l284hINN8d8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <4049@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Reply-To: cq019@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Preston Landers) NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu In a previous article, mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami) says: > >I wonder, whether 386bsd for 386/486 machine >runs on Pentium machine without change. >Is that CPU binary compatible to 386/486? > >PS. > When the chip will appeare in the market? > And how much will it be? > I have no idea when it's supposed to appear, other than this summer I think. It is supposed to be 386 family compatible, so stock 386bsd should run fine, but it would have to be modified to take special advantage of any 586 (I like that better than Pentium) features. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESTON LANDERS cq019@cleveland.freenet.edu "The man in the crowd with the multicolored mirrors on his hobnail boots." --------------------------------------------------------------------------