Re: TOT Re: Optimizing potato

[Victor <vdemart@supereva.it>]

Andrew Dixon [debian-user] <23/07/01 11:58 -0400>:
> Victor wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> This because the precompiled packages are
> > prepared for a generic i386 while I have an i686 processor.
> > 
> >
> This is totally off topic but I was just wondering. . . 
> 
> What is an i686.  i586 is the generic family of processors that the
> Pentium belongs to if IIRC but I didn't realize that there was another
> processor family beyond that.
> 
> just curious as to what i686 signifies.
> 

Hi Andy,

I meant to say that I have a Pentium III 700 Mhz that usually is
referred to as 686 in many linux documents.

Ciao
Vittorio