5.3 on Intel 386 ?

Andreas Braukmann braukmann at tse-online.de
Thu Nov 25 00:37:45 PST 2004


--On Donnerstag, 25. November 2004 17:28 Uhr +0900 Rob <spamrefuse at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> You'll need an FPU and a custom kernel that is compiled with the
>> CPU_I386 option.
>
> I'm not an expert here, but I found this:
>
>     80386SX = 386 w/o FPU
>     80386DX = 386 w/ FPU

plain wrong.
        80386SX = 386 with 16 Bit Databus
        80386DX = 386 with 32 Bit Databus

Both of them have no FPU. You have to add an 80387
as an external FPU.


-Andreas



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