Annotation of www/i386.html, Revision 1.5
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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)
1.1 deraadt 36: </ul>
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40: <h3><strong>Where to get it?</strong></h3>
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1.5 ! deraadt 43: Snapshots are made available from time to time:
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45: <ul>
46: <li><a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386>
47: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386</a><br>
48: located at Rutgers University, eastern USA.
49: <!-- davem@openbsd.org -->
50: <li><a href=ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386>
51: ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386</a><br>
52: located in France.
53: <!-- ftpmaint@ftp.ibp.fr -->
54: <li><a href=ftp://hal.cs.umr.edu/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386>
55: ftp://hal.cs.umr.edu/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386</a><br>
56: located in University of Missouri-Rolla, mid-western USA.
57: <!-- johns@cs.umr.edu -->
58: </ul>
59: You should also read the <a href=snapshots.html>
60: general description about OpenBSD snapshots</a>.
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