F12 on a P4

[stan]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:28:07 -0500
"Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:

> On 11/20/2009 12:28 PM, stan wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:57:34 -0600
> > Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> In the F12 Release notes it indicates that i586 support is gone in
> >> F12 and i686 is the the support available.
> >>
> >> Are there any implications of that to running F12 on a Pentium 4
> >> machine?
> > 
> > I think that Pentium 4 was the start of the i686 regime for intel.
> > The P3 is a i586 device, as is the AMD K6 series.  The AMD Duron
> > and Athlon were the start of i686 for that line.
> 
> *bzzzt*  WRONG
> 
> If what you said were true, then F12 couldn't be running on my 1GHz
> PIII.  But, it *is* running.  And "uname -a" claims:
> 
> Linux linux.framingham.ma.us 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7
> 21:41:45 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 

Right! :-)