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Update the i386 platform page to closer reflect the early 21st century.

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Gently push people towards the amd64 platform, especially for machines
with >4GiB RAM.  Drop one dead link, and one link to a very outdated page.
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<h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
<p>This page contains information about the FreeBSD/i386 platform.
This architecture supports the largest variety of CPUs since
most home users purchase these machines. If you have a machine
from any large PC company (such as Dell&trade;, HP, or eMachines&reg;)
chances are that you have either an AMD&trade; or Intel&reg; CPU and thus
fall into this category.</p>
FreeBSD/i386 should support any CPU compatible with the Intel&trade;
80486 or better in 32-bit mode, although almost every recent AMD&trade;
and Intel&trade; CPU will also be capable of running in 64-bit mode
using the <a href="&base;/platforms/amd64.html">FreeBSD/amd64</a>
port.</p>
<h3><a name="toc">Table Of Contents</a></h3>
<p>FreeBSD/i386 supports up to 4GiB of RAM by default. Machines
with more RAM will either need to run
<a href="&base;/platforms/amd64.html">FreeBSD/amd64</a> or run with
<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/hardware.html#memory-i386-over-4gb">
Physical Address Extension (PAE)</a> enabled in order to make use of
any memory above the 4GiB boundary.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li>
<li><a href="#links">Points of Interest</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Status</h3>
<p>FreeBSD/i386 runs in 32-bit multiuser mode, in both
Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor mode.</p>
<h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><p>FreeBSD 6.0 and newer no longer supports the original
Intel 80386 CPU; these computers are over seven years
old and are only supported by FreeBSD 5.X and earlier. Note that the
GENERIC kernel only supports 80386 CPUs in FreeBSD 4.X and earlier.
</p></li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="links">Points of Interest</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/">
FreeBSD Laptop compatibility list</a></li>
<li><a href="&base;/projects/acpi/index.html">
ACPI Project page</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The i386 platform is a <a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">Tier
1</a> FreeBSD platform.</p>
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