sad sad sad

[Peter L. Peres]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> I never admired the 386SX, only the DX.  Chopping of half the data bus
> of a a poor defenseless 386 just seemed cruel, all to satisfy the
> marketing weenies. :)

The payback was in the power budget (embedded, portable), heat (none),
size (smaller board) and price. All this for half the speed. Fyi a 386SX
will run a modern (at least 2.2) kernel just fine in despite of lacking
FPU (yes floating point works in applications using emulation -
transparent to the applications).  I am impressed (even X11 works with
only 8M of RAM on a 386SX/33). Ok, it's slow. So what. I remember
competitions in the 'kernel compile time'. 386SX I do not dare to test,
386DX/40 with 8M does it in ~2 hours.

Peter


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