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Re: Looking for suggestions for small, low power machine



On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:47:39PM +0100, bifferos ' wrote:
> OK, thanks for that clarification.  I mentioned '386' because I
> thought it was easier to say than 486SX without TSC.

TSC wasn't invented before the Pentium CPU. So no 486 CPUs will
support TSC.

> So, the Bifferboard is 486SX, and it won't boot NetBSD, is this
> considered a bug?

Possibly. You can always submit a PR.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/


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