On 10 June 2010 16:35, brian muhumuza <[email protected]> wrote:

> You should only be worried about i686 if your workstation processor is
> below pentium II. But i'm quite sure pentium II disappeared around 2001.
>
> Really? Unless I misunderstand the point you're making, Pentium 3's, as
well as older Pentium 4's & Xeon's were all 32-bit x86 processors. 64-bit
was only supported starting with next-gen Pentium 4, Xeon, Celeron D, Dual
Core as well as the newer Core i[3,5,7], Core 2 Duo, Atom, etc, etc. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit.

Since I personally have a couple of older Celeron's & P4's lying around,
32bit is definitely still important.

P.
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