stan wrote:
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:12:38 -0700
"Knute Johnson" <knute@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've got a Pentium 3 600mhz computer. Is the P3 chip an i686? It
won't run the F7 i686 Live CD. It won't run the i386 boot.iso
either.
Thanks,
if it already has a version of linux on it you can run uname -m to find
out.
Actually, the i686 is just more of a virtual identity/nomenclature.
Things (the numbering series) sort of stopped when Intel more-or-less
had to start giving their new CPUs names instead of numbers (e.g. i386,
i486, i586, etc.). Intel tried to trademark the "i486" but got turned
down because it was decided you can't trademark numbers. But for us to
easily keep the new CPU classes straight, we associated the first
Pentium (the follow-up to the i486 class of CPU) with what would have
then been the i586, the Pentium II with the i686, the Pentium 3 with the
i786 and now the newest Pentium 4 would/should be at the i886 level, but
things have pretty much stopped at the i686 (for some reason).
