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 <h3><font color=#0000e0>History and Status:</font></h3>  
   
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 The i386 port has quite a few architecture specific changes from the  
 NetBSD/i386 port, but the major ones are:  
 <ul>  
 <li>Also runs on machines with 512MB of ram or more, does not crash.  
 <li>the addition of ISA bounce buffer support so that ISA scsi cards (ie.  
         Adaptec 1542) can be used in machines with more than 16MB of memory.  
 <li>The same one GENERIC kernel works on all machines, whether it has  
         BusLogic or Adaptec scsi cards.  
 <li>some DDB improvements  
 <li>OPTI mcd support  
 <li>ATAPI cdrom support  
 <li>P5/P6 improved NTP support  
 <li>pccons has userland replaceable keymaps, and screen blanking  
 <li>boot "-a" support like other ports (asks for root partition)  
 <li>floppy disk formatting  
 <li>Cyclades Cyclom serial driver  
 <li>faster (assembly) IP checksumming (typically 20% faster, up to 62% faster  
         in some cases)  
 <li>vmstat -i prints interrupt information.  
 <li>latest rev of adaptec 2940 driver from FreeBSD  
 <li>supports "ep* at port ? irq ?"  
 <li>faster i386-specific `pccom' device driver.  
 <li>/dev/pctr pseudo-device & program for accessing the Pentium and PentiumPro  
         performance counters.  
 <li>Fixed major i386 kernel interrupt race.  
 <li>Fixed UCONSOLE security hole without breaking xconsole.  
 <li>ISA Plug-and-Play support  
 <li>the GPL FP emulator from Linux/Freebsd, for users who want to use it.  
         Much better!  
 <li>Prefer partition type 166, so that OpenBSD can co-reside on the same  
         disk as a 386BSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD install.  
 <li>Attempt to fault in a ptp; this avoids two ptp panic cases.  
 <li>RAW_PART is now 'c', not 'd'. It should start at 0, and cover your whole  
         disk.  
 <li>Updated ncr driver, much more performance.  
 <li>3c59x and 3c9xx cards work.  
 <li>Can mount DOS file systems with cluster size &gt; 16KB.  
 <li>Support for M$ IntelliMouse as a 3-button PS/2 mouse.  
 <li>Support for Industrial Computer Source PCI-WDT50x watchdog timers.  
 </ul>  
   
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 <h3><font color=#0000e0>Installation with Other Operating Systems:</font></h3>  <h3><font color=#0000e0>Installation with Other Operating Systems:</font></h3>
 The OpenBSD/i386 port can be installed to share the system disks with  The OpenBSD/i386 port can be installed to share the system disks with
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