Annotation of www/i386.html, Revision 1.6
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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
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1.3 fn 38: </p>
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41: <h3><strong>Where to get it?</strong></h3>
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1.5 deraadt 44: Snapshots are made available from time to time:
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46: <ul>
47: <li><a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386>
48: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386</a><br>
49: located at Rutgers University, eastern USA.
50: <!-- davem@openbsd.org -->
51: <li><a href=ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386>
52: ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386</a><br>
53: located in France.
54: <!-- ftpmaint@ftp.ibp.fr -->
55: <li><a href=ftp://hal.cs.umr.edu/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386>
56: ftp://hal.cs.umr.edu/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386</a><br>
57: located in University of Missouri-Rolla, mid-western USA.
58: <!-- johns@cs.umr.edu -->
59: </ul>
60: You should also read the <a href=snapshots.html>
61: general description about OpenBSD snapshots</a>.
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