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Old 08-31-2004, 03:40 PM   #1
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Classify AMD K5?

Can someone please enlighten me as to which class of processor an AMD K5 belongs to, i.e. is it i486 or i586?

And subsequently, what distro could I install on this machine, 16Mb RAM, 4Gb HDD and K5 CPU?

Thanks.
 
Old 08-31-2004, 03:50 PM   #2
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I believe the K5 was supposed to be Pentium compatible, so i586.
 
Old 08-31-2004, 03:59 PM   #3
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Thanks for that ZooL, I have searched without success for a site that defines the AMD processors, but that is what I suspected.
 
Old 09-10-2004, 02:53 PM   #4
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Just to confirm the above advice:

http://www.cpu-collection.de/?tn=0&l0=cl&l1=586

Thanks again.
 
  


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