On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 08:44:26AM +1100, Danny Smith wrote:
Although I haven't find any bug reports about running cygwin exes on
i386 (nor do I know of anyone with an i386 box to test), it could be a
problem. Has this potential problem been acknowledged anywhere?
Yes. It's been brought up. I've been waiting to see if there are any
complaints and so far I'm not aware of any.
I know that Win95a *barely* runs at all on a 386/dx 33, so I
can seriously say that it is highly improbable that anyone
would run cygwin on that platform. Even if it does run, it
would be so slow that you couldn't use it in any productive
manner. Good grief, imagine how long it would take to run a
configure script! Since cygwin doesn't run on WinCE, the
NT/Alpha and NT/PPC ports being pretty much dead, and the
fact that it won't run on 3.X pretty much underscores my
assertion. The grey area might be in some of the early
non-intel processors/processor upgrades.