On Thursday 02 Feb 2006 16:45, tsimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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. > As a long-time AMD user, I can only say that I do not remember such a processor, and I don't think it existed. Their names were always very different from Intel ones. > > (my point being how can a "Pentium" also be "486"?) > > AIUI, it cannot. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)
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