Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC?

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:00:47 -0000 (UTC), Robert Heller wrote:

Asside from very low-level MCUs, almost all processors,
partitularly any 32 or 64 bit processor with a MMU (read: processors
capabible of running in Linux) have hardware floating point. And even
ARM Cortex M0 and M4 processors (eg the sorts of processors on
Arduino-type boards) have hardware floating point.

And you can take it for granted they’re all IEEE 754-compatible. (Though
maybe not IEEE 754-2008-compatible ... yet.)

I can remember, back in the day when that wasn’t true. Floating-point used
to be a real Wild West, let me tell you.

FX: CREAK OF ROCKING CHAIR.