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Re: Architecture Nomenclature



On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 21:29 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> As far as uname, not all machines that output i686 will support SSE2.
> Your assumption should be that i686 == Pentium Pro, with the caveat
> that
> not all i686 machines support cmov (some Via chips do not). 

Thanks. If I was writing something for a 32-bit machine with SSE2
instruction set, what would be the most appropriate architecture name?

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