On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Cliff Pruitt wrote:
|> I don't quite know all the terminology ins & outs. I was under the
|> impression the intel architecture was called "i386" but I might just
|> be out of my mind. I wasn't quite referring to a 386 mhz processor!
|> (grin)
Intel is just a company name; Pentium is just a brand; neither lay claim
to the architecture itself (which is why AMD CPUs also implement the
x86 ISA).
In the most general sense it's called i386. That's because it's
the least common denominator as far as the instruction set for the CPU.
There's also 486, 586, 686, et al., with each one having additional
capabilities and, thus, a different instruction set. There's no 1:1
correspondence between the CPU name (386, 486, etc.) and its ISA.
I believe a Pentium 4 is classified as i686.
Michael
|> I'm just waiting to see the first Mac with a four inch "Intel Inside"
|> sticker plastered across the front...
|> (When they start bundling AOL I'm jumping ship...)
|> :-)
|>
|> Cliff
|>
|>
|> On Sep 14, 2005, at 6:27 AM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
|>
|> > On 14/09/05, Cliff Pruitt <email@hidden> wrote:
|> >
|> >> On Sep 13, 2005, at 4:11 PM, email@hidden
|> >> wrote:
|> >>
|> >>
|> >>> Mactel Computers
|> >>>
|> > ...
|> >
|> >> "Intel Based Mac" or "386 Mac" would be just fine if a distinction is
|> >> needed, but remember that eventually All Macs will be intel based
|> >>
|> >
|> > I would be worried if we start seeing Macs with 386 processors ;-)
|> > Currently, we don't know what the branding of any release hardware
|> > will be, and "Macintosh with Intel processor" (as used by the UBPG) is
|> > a bit verbose.
|> >
|> > -- Finlay
|> >
|> >
|>
|>
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