i386 & i586

[Odd]

Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2009/11/30 Fabio Locati <fabiolocati at gmail.com>:
>> it depends from your machine. If is newer than Pentium II you should
>> consider i586, otherwise use i386 ;)
> 
> For i586 you need a Pentium 1 CPU or newer. The first i686 was Pentium
> Pro then replaced by Pentium 2 and Pentium 3. Pentium 4 is not based
> on the "P6" architecture but Netburst that later was replaced by the
> Core architecture which is more directly derived from Pentium Pro than
> it is from NetBurst (i think).

That's correct. It was Intel's Israel division that took the Pentium 3
architecture and modified it heavily for laptop usage. They created
the Pentium M, and the Core architecture is based on that.

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Odd