Da Smog wrote:
Την Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:57:53 -0500,ο(η) Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> έγραψε:Peter de Vroomen wrote:Sorry, but the Pentium 4 is not i686. The Pentium 4 is ia32. The i686 is a RISC processor family of Intel. I believe it was meant specially for mediapurposes (audio, video), but I'm not sure.I believe you might be mixing up i686 with i860.There has never been an "official" i686. They may have used the name internally but since the 486 they haven't used the xxx86 name (has to do with IP rights)
...Yes it is so, they have had, at Intel, what they thought would be 686 and 586 developed in parallel.
I was in a presentation form the local representative of Intel and they were describing their 586 and 686 projects.
What came out was Pentium and Pentium Pro, and they were much as they had described. I think the floating point capability was the biggest surprise (not thinking of the bug).
I think 80686 was a number they had already used for something entirely different or maybe it was another company that had used it, which was at least part of why they dropped the number.
Knut