Re: Re: PDXLUG Digest, Vol 5, Issue 3

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 16:39, Richard Steffens wrote:

> I assume my vintage 1995 Pentium is considered an i586, and that I could 
> use a client intended for an i386, i486, or i586. What I don't find is 
> one of those clients in the list of 56 that is one I can use.

I have a handy winders program, testCPU, which has a Museum tab. My
understanding is that the 6 family includes Pentium Pro (Nov 1995),
Pentium II, Pentium III, and Xeon. The 5 family includes Pentium (1993),
and Pentium MMX (1997). 

> 
> There are four i586 clients listed. Two are i586-pc-beos, so I assume 
> they're not going to work. One is i586-novell-netware, and the other is 
> i586-sequent-sysv4. I'm guessing that the sequent-sysv4 might be close, 
> but I thought Linux was more closely related to sysv5.

Sequent was certainly an smp kernel. But you're correct, nothing there
looks appropriate.

> 
> There are no clients listed for i486.
> 
> Here's the list of i386 clients:
> 
> i386-pc-bsdi4.1:
> i386-pc-os2-warp.zip:
> i386-pc-sco3.2v5.0.x:
> i386-pc-solaris2.6:
> i386-pc-solaris2.6:
> i386-pc-sysv4.2uw2.1:
> i386-sco-sysv5.unixware7:
> i386-unknown-freebsd2.2.8:
> i386-unknown-freebsd4.0:
> i386-unknown-netbsd1.3:
> i386-unknown-openbsd3.3:
> i386-winnt-cmdline.exe:
> i386-winnt-cmdline.exe:
> 
> The closest sound one is i386-sco-sysv5.unixware7. How do I know if I'm 
> guessing correctly?

I think I'd try powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
because .............^^.........^^^^^^^^^

Unless you bought a bleeding edge system for Christmas in 1995 and have
a Pentium Pro. Then you could use i686-pc-linux-gnu.

> My only interest is to provide Seti@Home with some more processing time 
> from my fairly unloaded Linux machine. It just sits there and runs in 
> the basement, providing file storage and music piped to the stereo in 
> the living room.

A worthy endeavor. Good luck.

-- 
   Mel
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