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1.1       deraadt    16: <h2>OpenBSD/i386</h2>
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                     19: <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
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1.2       deraadt    22: The i386 port has some architecture specific changes from the
                     23: NetBSD/i386 port, but the major ones are:
1.1       deraadt    24: <ul>
1.3       fn         25: <li>the addition of ISA bounce buffer support so that ISA scsi cards (ie.
                     26:     Adaptec 1542) can be used in machines with more than 16MB of memory.
1.4       deraadt    27: <li>The same one GENERIC kernel works on all machines, whether it has
                     28:     BusLogic or Adaptec scsi cards.
                     29: <li>some APM and PCMCIA support (3c589, NE2000-clone, and COM ports)
                     30: <li>some DDB improvements
                     31: <li>OPTI mcd support
                     32: <li>ATAPI cdrom support
                     33: <li>P5/P6 improved NTP support
                     34: <li>pccons has userland replaceable keymaps, and screen blanking
                     35: <li>boot "-a" support like other ports (asks for root partition)
1.6       deraadt    36: <li>floppy formatting
1.7       deraadt    37: <li>Cyclades Cyclom serial driver
1.9       deraadt    38: <li>faster (assembly) IP checksumming (typically 20% faster, up to 62% faster in some cases)
1.8       deraadt    39: <li>vmstat -i prints information.
1.10    ! deraadt    40: <li>latest rev of 2940 driver
1.1       deraadt    41: </ul>
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                     43:
                     44: <hr>
                     45: <h3><strong>Where to get it?</strong></h3>
1.1       deraadt    46:
                     47: <p>
1.5       deraadt    48: Snapshots are made available from time to time:
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                     50: <ul>
                     51: <li><a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386>
                     52: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386</a><br>
                     53: located at Rutgers University, eastern USA.
                     54: <!-- davem@openbsd.org -->
                     55: <li><a href=ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386>
                     56: ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386</a><br>
                     57: located in France.
                     58: <!-- ftpmaint@ftp.ibp.fr -->
                     59: <li><a href=ftp://hal.cs.umr.edu/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386>
                     60: ftp://hal.cs.umr.edu/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386</a><br>
                     61: located in University of Missouri-Rolla, mid-western USA.
                     62: <!-- johns@cs.umr.edu -->
                     63: </ul>
                     64: You should also read the <a href=snapshots.html>
                     65: general description about OpenBSD snapshots</a>.
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