http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_P6
"The P6 microarchitecture is the sixth generation Intel x86
microarchitecture, implemented by the Pentium Pro microprocessor that
was introduced in November 1995. It is sometimes referred to as i686."
On 11/06/2010 08:58, brian muhumuza wrote:
You misunderstood the point. i686 is more like the sub architecture of
the cpu. Intel's cpu sub architecture went through 8080, 8086, i286,
i386, i486, i586, i686
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Peter C. Ndikuwera <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 10 June 2010 16:35, brian muhumuza <[email protected]
<mailto:[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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