P-IV is i386 or i686?

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 9 Feb 2005, at 15:54, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>> RPM packages for i386 are targeted to any Intel 80386 processor or 
>> newer. RPM packages for i686 are compiled using instructions from the 
>> 80386 instruction set, but the code is optimized for an Intel Pentium 
>> or newer processor.
>
> i686 pacakges actually use i686 specific instructions, and will not 
> work on older processors (i386, i486, and i586).  i386 packages are 
> the ones that use i386-only instruction set, and scheduling of 
> instructions is optimized for execution of i686 processors (since that 
> is the architecture most people use these days).

Yep! You're right. I twisted my mind.