Thanks for clearing things up!

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 14:59 -0600, Alan Robertson wrote:
> Diego Leider wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm running Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 on my i386 systems. On the
> > ultramonkey website i can't seem to find rpm of the latest heartbeat
> > version 2.0.4. Can i use the rpm's for the i586 architecture on my i386
> > systems? Can anybody explain the difference between i386, i586 and i686
> > to me?
> 
> i386 means the original Intel 80386  (you are unlikely to be using this)
> i486 means the original Intel 80486
> i586 means pentiums and AMD k6's I think
> i686 means something beyond the original pentium - I think maybe 
> supporting the MMX instructions.  This is also supported by the AMD 
> Athlon and later processors.
> 
> x86_64 means AMD64 processors, and the new AMD-compatible Intel 
> processor ;-)  (I forgot its number)
> 
> In general, each of the successive layers supports the previous 
> instructions, etc.
> 
> 

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