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10-12-2004, 11:16 AM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Ireland
Distribution: Slackware 9.1, Ubuntu
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What is an i686?
well what is it?
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10-12-2004, 11:28 AM
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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Seattle, WA USA
Distribution: Ubuntu @ Home, RHEL @ Work
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everything starting with the Penium Pro and AMD k6 including Pentium II/III/4, Athlon's, ect.
It is a vague cpu architecture label that basically means the (when put in a file name for a binary) that you can't run it on older processors like a K5, or a Pentium/Pentium MMX.
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10-12-2004, 01:25 PM
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Registered: Aug 2002
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In a nut shell:
The different Intel CPU's
8086
8088
80186
80188
80286
80386 - The oldest processor that linux can run on.
80486
Pentium and compatable- i586
Pentium w/mmx and compatable- i686
In shorthand
i386 for 80386
You will also see x86 for Intel compatable
It basically references the CPU instruction set. Intel designed it to be downward compatable. Anything compiled for a i386 will work on a i686.
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