Re: What Linux distro to use for old Intel machine, that fits on CDs?

At 28 Jun 2008 22:25:19 GMT Robert Riches <spamtrap42@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On 2008-06-28, Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Pentium Pros were available at 200mhz -- not labeled as PIIs, but were
686 processors and thus effectively PIIs in all but name. ...

The Pentium II and Pentium III processors were proliferation
designs based on the Pentium Pro. (I worked on schematic
formal verification as part of the design team of the
P. Pro. and P. IV.)

Right. The Pentium Pros were the precursor to the PII/PIII and use the
same instruction set: i686.



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