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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA861 ; Mon, 08 Feb 93 16:00:48 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!emory!ogicse!sequent!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!gecko.oes.orst.edu!matt From: matt@gecko.oes.orst.edu (Matt Curfman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Will 386bsd run for Pentium machine without pain? Message-ID: <1l4402INNud@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> Date: 7 Feb 93 22:54:58 GMT Article-I.D.: gaia.1l4402INNud References: <4049@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1l284hINN8d8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <JKH.93Feb7165708@whisker.lotus.ie> Organization: Oregon State University, Corvallis OR USA Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: gecko.oes.orst.edu In article <JKH.93Feb7165708@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: > 386bsd should run fine, but it would have to be modified to take > special advantage of any 586 (I like that better than Pentium) features. > >I've always read that the Pentium and 586 were two very different beasts - that >is why Intel didn't call the Pentium the 586 in the first place, they have >other plans for that name., > > Jordan >-- >Jordan Hubbard Lotus Development Ireland jkh@whisker.lotus.ie The Pentium and 586 are the one and the same. Because Intel lost it's federal rulling on the ability to trademark numbers, Intel decided not to use numbers at all to name their processor. Why spend millions of dollars to advertise the 586, when AMD and Cyrix can reap the benefits of name recognition? Notice that Intel did the same thing with the 486DX-2, It's name is the Intel OverDRIVE processor, not the Intel 486DX-2. (although everybody calls it that anyhow) :) -mc _____________________________________________________________________________ Matt Curfman Almanac Information Archivist matt@gecko.oes.orst.edu Oregon State University Extension