[Gllug] Small rant

Anthony Newman anthony.newman at uk.clara.net
Tue Nov 8 08:26:42 UTC 2005


Peter Childs wrote:
> after all why do you think the standard kernel gets marked i386?

Because it was the first Intel processor with memory protection in 
hardware, and all the instructions are backwards compatible?

Ant
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