Re: Missing define?

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On 21 Dec 2006 at 16:34, James Wilkinson wrote:

> Larry Phillips wrote:
> 
> > Sounds good. I went to the Ditribution page at fedora.redhat, and
> > found a couple of Canadian distributors. Right now I am trying to
> > figure out which distribution I need. I see 1386, x86, x86_64, and
> > i686 all spoken of, and the vendors I have found so far seem to only
> > carry i386 and x86_64. Will the i386 distribution do for a 486 or
> > Pentium machine?
> 
> Firstly, no Fedora release works on a 486.

Oh! I thought I had a 486 om my Dell machine. I guess it can't be, because Fedora Core 3 is happily running on it. Unfortunately I 
can't confirm this, because I have no idea how to query the processor type from the OS, and it doesn't seem to want to stop at the 
BIOS when I hit F10 on power-up.

> Secondly, these days i386 and x86 are effectively the same thing -- the
> 32 bit architecture introduced with the Intel 386. i686 includes all the
> (few) extra instructions added by the Pentium Pro -- so that also
> includes Pentium II, AMD Athlon (or later) or recent VIA processors.
> 
> Fedora i386 includes support for i586 processors if you happen to have
> an older PC. There isn't a separate i686 release -- Fedora i386 also
> supports these processors.

Glad to hear it! I ordered a Core 6 i386 CD set, after scratching around a little, and deciding it must have been an 1386 version I 
installed Core 3 with.

> Hope this helps,

It does. Thanks a bunch.

Larry
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