[PLUG] Disto question

[Bruce Kilpatrick]

arch reports my K6II 350 as i586.



Auke Kok wrote:

> Bruce Kilpatrick wrote:
>
>> Hopefully someone else can answer that question.  It might be i686.  
>> I had a 5x86 that was nothing more than an over clocked 486 (both 
>> AMD) and it was a smokin machine for it's time.
>>
>> More research necessary.
>
>
> 486 != 586 - they are really different instruction sets making them 
> different. If you run generic x86 code (==i386) it will work (of 
> course) but back then nobody was using -march=i586 anyway.
>
>> The fact of the matter is that I am experimenting to see what the old 
>> girl will run.  At this point in time she is exhausting herself 
>> running XPPro...she's tough but struggling with the newer software.  
>> More memory would certainly not hurt...Did someone say Free Geek?
>
>
>
> run `arch` on it and it will show the correct value:
>
> $ arch
> i586
>
> k6 and k6-2 are not 100% i686. In theory most i686 software will work 
> - especially if generically compiled with "sane" optimizations. But at 
> random intervals you may experience the horrible "Illegal Instruction" 
> errors.
>
> Auke
>
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