FC3 "Minimum: Pentium-class" -- is this arch=486/opt=686?

["Bryan J. Smith" <b j smith ieee org>]

Alan & co --

Just wanted to verify what the "Minimum: Pentium-class" requirements of
Fedora Core (FC) 3 are.

I assume the "Pentium-class" phrase means that a full 486 ISA with TLB
and other features is the actual ISA (instruction set architecture)
requirement -- meaning it is still compatible with very high speed
"Pentium-class" embedded chips like those from SGS-Thompson and
pre-Geode National Semi / AMD SC-series system-on-a-chip (SoC) stuff?

[ Excusing, of course, anything that requires NPTL ]

And then, atop of all that, the binaries are optimized for 686 (Pentium
Pro).

Correct?



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