Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 9:35:28 pm Christopher Chan wrote: > >> Pentium the Original. Pentium II, III are all based on the Pentium Pro >> (i686) and they have a different architecture than Pentium the Original. >> Pentium II is basically the Pentium Pro + MMX. Pentium 4 and M use the >> Netburst architecture which is again different from the Original. >> > > Oh, wow, ancient then, yeah. I've got a Pentium 2 here. The most RAM it > can take is 384MB. That *might* be enough RAM to run Xubuntu (mine > has 192MB and technically GNOME can run, if it has about 1GB of swap, > but then no other apps can). A motherboard from the days of the > original Pentium would max out at...what? 128MB? > > Higher end ones can go up to 768MB. The Pentium uses Socket 7 and that is used by many others like the AMD K6-2, AMD K6-III, Cyrix..all these preferring i486 over i586 specific binaries and of course i686 over the rest but with gotchas with respect to MMX or 3DNow optimization/support.
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