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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