20 Jun
2005
20 Jun
'05
9:49 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:46:36PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith@ieee.org wrote:
Right ... but in a software capacity we are also talking about pentium, pentium mmx, cyrix i686, amd k6, via c3 that use i586 packages.
No! You _never_ want anything but a _true_ Pentium or Pentium MMX using i586. i586 ISA and/or optimization are _not_ good for anything but those 2 chips. You want to use i686 for AMD K6, Cyrix M2 and Via C3. You want to use i486 for AMD K5 and Cyrix 6x86/M1. This is one of the most misunderstood details in the user world.
I think it goes something like this: "Bu.... bigger number... bigger number faster! Want bigger number!" :)
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