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Solaris 8 on a i386
Post 30429 by BSeanD on Tuesday 22nd of October 2002 06:50:13 AM
10-22-2002
*Is your Intel pc having Pentium 4 processor... If so I doubt u'll be able to install any kind of Unix on it.*
Actually that is not correct. Unix is renowned for working on all types of machines, from the fastest and newest to the old 486.
I'm running FreeBSD on a PIII 866 and it runs fine. I have a friend of mine running OpenBSD on a P166.
Unix is not hampered by CPU speed, within reason of course.
chamkila, you will have no trouble dual booting no matter what system you have. Follow the link provided by minazk and follow the instructions.
Good luck.
Actually that is not correct. Unix is renowned for working on all types of machines, from the fastest and newest to the old 486.
I'm running FreeBSD on a PIII 866 and it runs fine. I have a friend of mine running OpenBSD on a P166.
Unix is not hampered by CPU speed, within reason of course.
chamkila, you will have no trouble dual booting no matter what system you have. Follow the link provided by minazk and follow the instructions.
Good luck.
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cpu_family(3alleg4) Allegro manual cpu_family(3alleg4) NAME
cpu_family - Contains the CPU type. Allegro game programming library. SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h> extern int cpu_family; DESCRIPTION
Contains the Intel type, where applicable. Allegro defines the following CPU family types: CPU_FAMILY_UNKNOWN - The type of processor is unknown CPU_FAMILY_I386 - The processor is an Intel-compatible 386 CPU_FAMILY_I486 - The processor is an Intel-compatible 486 CPU_FAMILY_I586 - The processor is a Pentium or equivalent CPU_FAMILY_I686 - The processor is a Pentium Pro, II, III or equivalent CPU_FAMILY_ITANIUM - The processor is an Itanium processor CPU_FAMILY_POWERPC - The processor is a PowerPC processor CPU_FAMILY_EXTENDED - The processor type needs to be read from the cpu_model You can read this variable after you have called check_cpu() (which is automatically called by allegro_init()). SEE ALSO
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