Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:18:45 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Cc: Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: i386 do not support i386 Message-ID: <200511280818.46625.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <59e2ee810511250557j1b4ff01dsa7e93d3c73a86121@mail.gmail.com> References: <59e2ee810511250557j1b4ff01dsa7e93d3c73a86121@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 25 November 2005 08:57 am, Rostislav Krasny wrote: > > FreeBSD 6.0R don't support 386 processors according to the release > > notes, maybe it's time to change the name of the i386 platform to the > > x86 platform. > > 16-bit 8086, 8088, 80186 and 80286 are x86 processors too. 80386 was > the first 32-bit processor from Intel, and it had many other > significant architectural changes. I believe the i386 architecture > name is righteous for 80386 successors, even without the 80386 > particular support. That's just my IMHO. Agreed, especially when you consider the amd64 processors which are also kn= own=20 as x86-64 and thus 'x86'. In fact, on NetBSD, they put code shared between= =20 NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/x86-64 in sys/arch/x86, and FreeBSD may someday do t= he=20 same with a sys/x86 containing files shared between sys/i386 and sys/amd64= =20 (but don't hold your breath. :) ) =2D-=20 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> =A0<>< =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =A0=3D =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org
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