i386 means...32 bit?

Thufir hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 08:52:55 UTC 2012


On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:23:18 +0600, সাজেদুর রহিম জোয়ারদার wrote:


> *uname -a*
> 
> Your will find your system type and the processor type also.


thufir at dur:~$ 
thufir at dur:~$ uname -a
Linux dur.bounceme.net 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 
UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
thufir at dur:~$ 


See, that's exactly what I mean.  It says right there "i686".  The reason 
I ask is that I want to use dbmail.  However, dbmail has no i386 version:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dbmail/14365

what does that mean?  That is 64bit only?  Or, to use a ?syllogism, if 
all i386 are 32 bit...

does that work the other way around?  are all 32bit systems i386?



thanks,

Thufir





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