On 27 September 2010 20:36, R James <upsnag2@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

the original mandrake has even the same binary package (not recompiled) of the RH.

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...

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...

:-)