[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

[Patrice BRUNELLE]

Le vendredi 24 septembre 2010 à 15:51 -0500, R James a écrit :
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Sinner from the Prairy
> <sinnerbofh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > patrice.brunelle at free.fr wrote:
> >
> >> Wikipedia says that X86_64 include SSE/SSE2. All the new processors are 64
> >> bits. So I don't think it is necessary to change i586 to i686. 32 bits
> >> platform will die soon. Also it is more important to keep more
> >> compatibility for 32 bits.
> >
> > Well said.
> >
> > No need to maintain extra repos with minor imoprovements on target archs.
> 
> Technically, the i686 started with the Pentium Pro.  (Remember that?  :o)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P6_(microarchitecture)

Yes I remember that. And ?

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Patrice BRUNELLE <patrice.brunelle at free.fr>