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Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore



Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 03:06:17AM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
>>> Really? Seems wrong to me.
 
>>    Indeed. MMX and PPro are orthogonal features.

> Wasn't there "Pentium MMX" in between? I have at least one computer
> with one of those processors.

They are orthogonal, there are both *586 and *686 with and
without MMX. Iirc the development tree looks like this:

------ time --->
Pentium ---- PPro----------------PentiumII (PPro+MMX)
  |
  +------------------Pentium MMX

         cu andreas



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