Win Software on Linux

[Lindsay]

> >>Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski, still sick, still at work..
> > 
> > 
> > It's a new PC.  How do I tell if it is x86?
> > 
> > 
> 
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> He's referring to a computer with an Intel (Pentium 4, Centrino) or AMD 
> (Athlon, Sempron, XP) chip that traces it's roots back to the Intel 8086 
> microprocessor in the early 1990's.  As opposed to a different 
> architecture like a PowerPC or a Sparc.  If the vendor offered your 
> computer with WinXP or Win2K, then it is most likely an x86.
> 
> Ed
> -- 
> Ed Fletcher
> ed at fletcher.ca
> 
> What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
> whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
> or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
> 
> 
Understood.  Then I must have an x86 as the retailer usually installs
Windoze on them, but they are offered bare bones and you can put what
you like on them - Ubuntu for me.