On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 12:30 AM Marco <m...@posteo.de> wrote: > Am Sat, 16 Jul 2022 11:26:44 -0400 > schrieb Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com>: > > > Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? I ask > > because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 (1985) to > > i686 Pentium 4 and newer. > > It would be interesting what the benefit of that is. You may compile > amd64 packages with support for SSE, SSE2, etc., this won't break > something, but for i386 (only a small amount of computers really needs > that) this will make many of the current usages of i386 impossible. > > All thanks for the responses but the situation is mute. Debian already migrated to i686 as the minimum supported version a few years ago. i686 supports Pentium 3 which is the oldest processor in use on this thread. Some internet sites say that i686 is Pentium 4 and later others say that it is Pentium 2 or later. Others say that i686 is Pentium Pro version 2 and later. If it is indeed Pentium Pro and later then a lot of older processors are still supported: Pentium 2, Pentium 3, Pentium M, Celeron, Pentium 4 etc.
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