[ale] 386 or no 386?

[Keith Hopkins]

Dow Hurst wrote:

> Celeron and P-II were called 686, right?  Pentium is i586, Pentium II is
> i686, but I don't know what a Pentium III or IV would be.  The internal
> architecture of the each suceeding chip has more instruction pipes or
> more efficient architecture, correct?  K6-2 and K-7 had equivalency to a
> i686 type architecture AFAIK but the K-7 had a possibility of executing
> 3 instructions per cycle.  I don't know too much about it so take all
> this with a grain of salt.
> dow


   Some(all?) Celerons and the K6 family are not 686.  See the kernel source {run menuconfig for your kernel} for a detailed breakdown on the x86 family.

Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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