different architecture

[tinyman]

What is the different between these architecture.

i386
i586
i686

[bob]

More than you really want to know: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg05183.html

[nick.stumpos]

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg05183.html
best answer ive ever read, but basically they are different instruction sets for types of processors

[tinyman]

I hope this is correct

amd athlon is consider i686

duo core or core 2 dore i386

[bob]

No, any modern chip is i686 - it's only the very old antiques that would be less.

[AlexThomson_NZ]

I think basically:
386 = 80386 Intel processor (ie. the '386 PCs in the mid-late 80s, around 25MHz)
586 = 1st generation Pentium chips (early-mid 90's, around 100MHz)
686 = Pentium Pro and better (Mid 90's, starting around 150Mhz)

Each new generation has added extra op-codes, and remain backward compatible (ie. 386 code will work on 686 processors), but is not nessesarily forward compatible (ie. 686 code will not work on a 386 PC). Unless you are running on *very* old hardware use i686 compiled programs.