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diff --git a/nl/hardware/supported/i386.xml b/nl/hardware/supported/i386.xml index 29bc3ce20..249880cef 100644 --- a/nl/hardware/supported/i386.xml +++ b/nl/hardware/supported/i386.xml @@ -21,16 +21,16 @@ processors like the Athlon XP and Intel P4 Xeon. </para><para> -However, Debian GNU/Linux &releasename; will <emphasis>not</emphasis> run +However, &debian; GNU/Linux &releasename; will <emphasis>not</emphasis> run on 386 or earlier processors. Despite the architecture name "i386", support for actual 80386 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the Sarge -(r3.1) release of Debian<footnote> +(r3.1) release of &debian;<footnote> <para> We have long tried to avoid this, but in the end it was necessary due a unfortunate series of issues with the compiler and the kernel, starting with an bug in the C++ ABI provided by GCC. You should still be able to -run Debian GNU/Linux on actual 80386 processors if you compile your own +run &debian; GNU/Linux on actual 80386 processors if you compile your own kernel and compile all packages from source, but that is beyond the scope of this manual. </para> @@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ supported<footnote> <para> -Many Debian packages will actually run slightly faster on modern computers +Many &debian; packages will actually run slightly faster on modern computers as a positive side effect of dropping support for these old chips. The i486, introduced in 1989, has three opcodes (bswap, cmpxchg, and xadd) which the i386, introduced in 1986, did not have. Previously, these could not -be easily used by most Debian packages; now they can. +be easily used by most &debian; packages; now they can. </para> |