F12 on a P4

[Bill Davidsen]

Rodney Morris wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:57 AM, 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 would think not, because the Pentium 4 architecture is two
> generations after the PentiumPro, which introduced the i686
> architecture, i.e. PentiumPro->Pentium III->Pentium 4.
> 
I think there's a missing Pentium-II in there, seems that right after I get my 
PPro machine the P-II came out, bigger cache but running at half speed, IIRC.

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