Re: [Mingw-msys] Query, MSYS-i?86 architecture, is it worth my trouble?

[b.l. b. <bl....@ly...>]

 
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On 19 Aug 2002 20:24:45 +010  
 Paul Moore wrote:
>"Paul G." <pga...@at...> writes:
>> I guess my question becomes, "Is it really necessary to support 386,
>> 486, 586 & 686?"  (sf.net poll maybe?)  Initially I would have to
>> say "no".  If I were asked which one to support, I would say, "I use
>> an I686 based platform.".
>
>The i686 version of the distribution breaks on my Athlon-based
>system. I never bothered to investigate why, I just switched to the
>i386 version. The i586 version works, too.
>
>Paul.
>

From this, my vote would be to keep only two, the i386 and i586.  Unless someone can show that the i686 has a substantial performance improvement over the i586 on Intel systems.  Then there would be three...

Just an opinion,
Brad


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