Re: Athlon

From: Kent Stewart (kstewart_at_owt.com)
Date: 02/29/04

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Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:57:36 -0800

    On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:36 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
    > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:12:02PM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote:
    > > Just a couple of easy questions for you. Is a machine with an
    > > Athlon processor 1.4 MHz an i386 machine? And if so, what kind of
    > > processor should I select in my kernel? i586, or i686?
    >
    > One of these?
    >
    > CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP1600+ (1400.06-MHz 686-class CPU)
    > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x662 Stepping = 2
    >
    > Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MC
    >A,CMOV,PA T,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
    > AMD Features=0xc0480000<MP,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
    >
    > As /var/run/dmesg.boot says, it's a 686 class processor.
    >

    I was going to send one of these but then I got to thinking about what
    you needed to know before you download an iso or whatever. The web site
    really doesn't tell you that an Athlon is a 686 and you need to know
    that before you do the install and can look at the dmesg output.

    Kent 

    -- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA
http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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