Generic Install

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 02 Feb 2006 16:45, tsimi at speakeasy.net wrote:
> My mistake,
>
> I have a Pentium 4 D
>
> Thanks
> Todd
>
> > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 21:52 +0000, tsimi at speakeasy.net wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I have a friend that is using a box I setup for him several years
> >> ago with RedHat 7.2. I think he would really like FC and would
> >> like to send him a hard drive with already installed, as he is not
> >> an OS/Hardware guy.
> >>
> >>Is it possible for me to install an IDE drive in my machine (
> >> Pentium 486 D )
> >
> > Didn't Intel call the "586" processor family "Pentium" because they
> > couldn't trademark numbers?
>
> That's my understanding. But AMD produced a processor called
> the 586, which is a 486 class processor.
>
As a long-time AMD user, I can only say that I do not remember such a 
processor, and I don't think it existed.  Their names were always very 
different from Intel ones.

> > (my point being how can a "Pentium" also be "486"?)
>
> AIUI, it cannot.

Anne
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