386 old days like 10 years ago 486 came after that 586 you probably know them better as Pentium/AMD K5 etc 686 PPro/P-II MMX/P-III
it has to do with instructions, MS uses i386 to indicate intel x86 platform based software linux does it with i686 mostly.... (mysql for i686 runs on 486 as well) Your cpu is a 686 if I'm not mistaken though, don't believe it's a 586 it ain't anything below that anyways... It is kinda confusing yea... They should just use x86 but they don't :/ regards On Sunday 21 October 2001 12:32, you wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
