On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: > 2010/9/27 Thierry Vignaud wrote: >> >> Wrong! >> Original mandriva was compiled i386. It was when we "merged" with >> berolinux we targeted the i586 (spring 1999). >> Using an experimental compiler (egcs). >> At -O6. > pgcc powah!
Well, its a good thing I didn't bet my first-born on *that*! ;o) >> i486 does. Did. At least fedora's glibc had patches for that. > Yupp, I thought they had made their way upstream since though? I've got a 486 running Slackware 12.1 so yes, I think so. > There was also a i486 release of at least of either mandrake 7.0, 7,1 > or 7.2, wasn't there? :) Yes, it was Mandrake 7.0. Have a look at my screenie here: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=58102 I've still got the iso if anyone wants a copy. ;o) That was a special build which is why I incorrectly thought that none of the other Mandrake releases supported i486. Chmouel's name *still* appears in many startup scripts. He must have been a prolific coder back in the day... Thanks for the memories. :o) Rick _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
