On 11/23/2013 07:40 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
> I doubt it was an actual 80386. For some years the minimum CPU
> requirement has been i686, which was Pentium Pro or greater. More
> recently the additional requirement of a CPU with PAE capabilities. I
> rather doubt that a processor that ran RH9 (a decade or more ago)
> would have PAE, though I have been wrong before (once or twice! :) :)
I've got a machine that started life running RH7.3, was migrated to
CentOS3 and is still running it (though hopefully not much longer - I am
retiring the machine before it decides that a decade plus of service is
long enough and dies on its own). The motherboard BIOS date is
05/15/2003 and the dual CPUs are 3Ghz Xeons with hyperthreading and,
yes, PAE.
That isn't even the oldest running system here. That honor goes to a
system currently with CentOS5, a motherboard BIOS date of 03/29/2000,
384 MBytes of memory, running a Celeron 500 MHz CPU with PAE (also
facing retirement in the near future).
:)
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Benjamin Franz
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