Because i386 is the old architecture... i686 is the sixth-generation x86 line, which includes PPro/PII/PIII/P4/Celeron/Athlon/Duron/Crusoe. Your system is both an i686 and an i386 (i686 is a subset of i386, that is the 686 is compatible with the 586 (Pentium), 486, 386, 286, 8086 and 8088) -----Original Message----- From: Daniel.T [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 12:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Newbie]i686?
T thought my system was a i386 I have a PPro and it has always beeni386 in nt win200 etc.. But when I did a xfree86 -version it said Operating system: Linux 2.2.17-8smp i686 [ELF] WHY? //D _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
