Jakub's Recommendations for ia32 Support

[Callum Lerwick]

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 13:58 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Warren Togami (wtogami at redhat.com) said: 
> > i686 to i686 w/ SSE2 would be a performance win, but that is
> > clearly not an option for Fedora.
> 
> Well, I think this is debatable. The i686 CPUs without SSE2 (Pentium III
> and earlier, 32-bit Athlon) are generally older and haven't been sold
> for even longer than the C3 and similar processors that were a concern
> for i586. They are likely to have a much larger userbase, though, so I
> can seee still supporting them.

Uhhh, I still actively use a Celeron 1.3 laptop (P3 core), and an Athlon
1.4ghz. (Thunderbird core, no SSE)
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