From: "Damian Yerrick" <snews AT pineight DOT 8m DOT comMUNIST-PIGS-AOL>
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> > I might be wrong but I don't think there would be any on this
> > newsgroup using a 386+287 for serious work in 2000.

386 PCs? No. Their BIOSes probably have the century bug.

> You would be wrong.

Especially in embedded systems.

> The only reason we don't compile with -mpentium is because
> we still didn't switch to GCC 2.9x for building the library, and
> versions of GCC before 2.9x didn't support Pentium-specific
> optimizations.

Then I guess I'll have to recompile everything from sources myself
once the next DJGPP version is released, as one of my systems is
486SX-based.

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