Scott Silva wrote: > on 4-7-2008 10:39 AM Manuel Tuthill spake the following: >>> You have read the whole line, right? :o) >> >> No I stopped reading as soon as I had enough information to prove someone >> else on the internet wrong and therefore myself right and more superior. >> Now I'm just hopping that someone else don't come back and prove that the >> Geode LX is i686, I did say very early on that it's very hard to tell >> and I >> don't have one to test. > It looks like the Geode is i586 but with cmov functionality. > > It strikes me as odd that AMD would build a 586 processor with cmov > instructions, but also build a 686 class without that instruction set. > Makes me wonder if it was an engineering snafu that was too costly to > fix for the quantity they expected to sell. As I recall AMD bought the Geode product line from someone else: http://www.linuxdevices.com/products/PD6094486551.html -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)