On Saturday 16 February 2002 11:15 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 10:58:59 -0500, Bill Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > Cyrix was bought by VIA Technologies, along with most of the graphics > division at S3 (which is now called SonicBlue) and Centaur Technologies > (makers of the IDT Winchip).
Ahh! So that's what happened to them. Thank you.
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