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2010/9/27 Thierry Vignaud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thierry.vignaud@gmail.com">thierry.vignaud@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 27 September 2010 20:36, R James <<a href="mailto:upsnag2@gmail.com">upsnag2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Even the original Mandrake of 1998 was compiled for i586 (Pentium<br>
> Classic or newer)<br>
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</div>Wrong!<br>
Original mandriva was compiled i386. It was when we "merged" with<br></blockquote><div><br>the original mandrake has even the same binary package (not recompiled) of the RH.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
berolinux we targeted the i586 (spring 1999).<br>
Using an experimental compiler (egcs).<br>
At -O6.<br></blockquote><div><br>Wrong too! :-) It was not egcs, but pgcc (not the portland compiler) a special version of gcc...<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
All of this landed in version 6.0 with the new glibc-2.1 and the new kernel-2.2.<br>
That was the distro where we defaulted to using udma.<br>
On all hard disks. Even those who didn't supported.<br></blockquote><div><br>yep pre-pre-pre kernels...<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Ah, me remembering the glorious days of mdk6.1 with chmouel chasing a<br>
critical kernel memory leak just days before the release.<br>
Hopefully Alan Cox saved us.<br>
That was a beautiful year :-)<br><br></blockquote><div><br>Good old times...<br><br>:-)<br><br></div></div>
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