A PII is a 686. It is perfectly accurate.
Bryan Scaringe
> Greetings...
>
> I was attempting to configure my SB64 AWE and ISA modem last night, so I
> did a cat /proc/interrupts to see what IRQ's these things were using...
>
> In the output I got this
>
> 13 Math Error 1
>
> According to the BIOS, the "numeric data processor" is sitting at IRQ
> 13...but it in the 5 months I've owned this machine it hasn't thrown any
> hardware errors up...
> It's a PII 300 (Linux calls it a i686!!!) on an A-Trend BX440
> Mainboard...
> Anyone else encountered this? Or is the Pentium II specs still resonably
> unknown territory to Linux? As I said, it names the processor a 686, a
> term I've only ever seen AMD and Cyrix chips called...
> Weird... hope this ain't the start of bizarre hardware errors...
> 'Later
> Peter
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