On Thursday 02 Feb 2006 16:45, tsimi(a)speakeasy.net wrote:
My mistake,
I have a Pentium 4 D
Thanks
Todd
> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 21:52 +0000, tsimi(a)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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