On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:59:25AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> * Jeffrin Jose T. (jeffrin@msservices.org) [010930 06:49]:
> >
> > I have a AMD Duron processor and when i do "uname -m " i get related
> > to i686 is it correct ?
>
> I've got an AMD K6-2, 450 mhz. 'uname -m' returns 'i586' for me.
ix86 basically means cpu architecture, i585 = pentium-like
i686 PII=like
ultimately, i386 for intel/ibm PC style cpu's
since the kernel requires some of the features that arrived in the 80386 intel
cpu, <insert rant here>
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