[plug] need to upgrade? -was Re: [plug] kmail and the gigasecond bug

[Bill Kenworthy]

A full Mandrake (7.2 & now 8.0) install works fine on a cyrix 686/pr233
(200mhz) chip.  As Mandrake uses a 586 optimized compile as standard, I
presume the cyrix uses a 586 instruction set, but a 486 physical
architecture, which is where the pentium gets ahead.

BillK

On Sun, 2001-09-09 at 22:50, Bret Busby wrote:
> 
> The 586 was supposed to be the equivalent of a 486; the 6x86 was supposed to be
> the equivalent of a pentium. However, I have subsequently found that, while the
> 6x86 is supposed to be the equivalent of a pentium in processing power, it uses
> only the 486 instruction set.
>