Hi Andy, Take a look at this web. It may help answer your question.
http://www.x86.org/articles/computalk/help.htm Cheers, Jim Richards You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax, tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. --Pearl Williams On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 11:58:48AM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote: > This is totally off topic but I was just wondering. . . > > What is an i686. i586 is the generic family of processors that the > Pentium belongs to if IIRC but I didn't realize that there was another > processor family beyond that. > > just curious as to what i686 signifies. > > thanks, > Andy > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]