My mistake, I have a Pentium 4 D Thanks Todd > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 21:52 +0000, tsimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I have a friend that is using a box I setup for him several years ago with RedHat 7.2. I think he would really like FC and would like to send him a hard drive with already installed, as he is not an OS/Hardware guy. >> >>Is it possible for me to install an IDE drive in my machine ( Pentium 486 D ) > > > Didn't Intel call the "586" processor family "Pentium" because they > couldn't trademark numbers? That's my understanding. But AMD produced a processor called the 586, which is a 486 class processor. > (my point being how can a "Pentium" also be "486"?) AIUI, it cannot.
