How to verify the running kernel's architecture?

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 15:44 -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> [snip]
> >> Is this CPU really a i586?
> >>
> >
> > Yup.  Well, it's equivalent to an i586 (P-II).
> >
> 
> i586 refers to the original pentium chips, not P-II chips (those were i686).
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I586

Yes, you're right.  I could blame that on a sticky keyboard, but I'll
fess up.  586 was the Pentium I.  My bad.

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