it has to do with the CPU chip in-out architecture, i refers to intel, 86 refers to the structure intel has used since the days of 8086 processors, if you follow the progression of intel processors, 8086, (includes 8088) (80)286[all really 8 bit i/o], (80 or just an i) 386[ 16 bit i/o, and includes 486] i586= pentium [32bit i/o], i686 = P2+celery err,, celerons+P3+Pent4, , dec or alpha is the Digital Equipment Corp 64 bit chip On Thursday 16 August 2001 02:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since someone just brought it up, could one of the smart people please > explain the different kinds of architectures, what they mean, and why they > matter? I know (from running the GNOME system info program in the > monitoring menu) that I have an i686, what's that mean? > > Thanks, > Isaac > > (i have a few more questions but both are completely different topics so > I'll put them in other emails to try and help keep things threaded) ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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