Subject: Re: cpu type
To: None <christos@deshaw.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/02/1995 10:41:21 
   In article <199506222157.OAA04400@gabriella.resort.com> banshee@gabriella.resort.com (Robert Dobbs) writes:
   >
   >if a kernel is compiled with just 'I386_CPU' support,
   >will it run on a 486/586?

   Don't think so. It will complain immediately.

No; it should work fine.  It just won't use any 486-specific features.