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  1. How do I tell if my CPU is i386 or i686?

    It's an AMD Athlon 2200. Maybe this is a dumb question but I am a complete
    newbie.


  2. Re: How do I tell if my CPU is i386 or i686?

    Ike schrieb:
    > It's an AMD Athlon 2200. Maybe this is a dumb question but I am a
    > complete newbie.



    it's an i686, as everything equal to or a above a Pentium II (or similar
    AMD CPUs). it's of course backwards compatible with i386/i586/the very
    rare i486 packages.

    greetings
    paul

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