On Friday 15 February 2002 10:47 pm, James wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 22:21:53 -0500
>
> "Terry Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > K5-*  == i486
> > > > K6-*  == i586
> >
> > Not quite. K5 is a Pentium clone. K6 added MMX and K6-2 added 3dnow!.
> > So, K5 and K6 should both be i586...
> > K6-3 is the same as K6-2 with the addition of on-die L2 cache...
> >
> > Terry
>
> True and as well there are some i686 rpms on my box now... running fine.
>  Also when I compile a kernel under 2.2 I chose i586 under 2.4 I chose
> k-6 family.  Wasn't i686 originally the Cyrix soon followed by the
> Celeron?

Cyrix  is a separate chip comany altogether. Like AMD. Though I don't 
think they're around any longer.

Bill

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