[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

Mon Sep 27 23:48:09 CEST 2010

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