You are correct. the Ppro up to the pIII are all "686' class processors but
they fall under the class pseudo 786 is you want to get technical. And yes
the AMD K7 is the only 786 processor. Even then you could argue that. It
uses a lot of the RISC instruction sets
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Choose Pentium? OR 586?
On 5 Nov, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Nov 1999, you wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In menuconfig, (I have a feeling this is a dumb question) I
>> automatically have 386 with an "X" next to it. I have a Pentium 233
>> mHz. Is that technically a 586? I'm not sure whether to tell it that
>> or Pentium. My Linux book says to check 586 but I'm not sure why.
>>
> Yes! A Pentium is a 586-class processor. I think Technically a
> Pentium is a 586, a Pentium Pro is a 686, a PII would be a 786, and a
> PIII would be an 886
Not quite. P-II and P-III are both 686 processors. The first (or so I
hear) truly 7th generation x86 processor on the market is AMD's Athlon
processor. The P-III is just a hyped up P-II, which is just a P-Pro
with MMX. Of course, I'm over-simplfying, but I believe I'm mostly
correct. I do know for sure that neither the P-II nor P-III qualify as
anything more than a "686" processor.
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