Generic Install

[Mike McCarty]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 21:52 +0000, tsimi at speakeasy.net wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a friend that is using a box I setup for him several years ago with RedHat 7.2.  I think he would really like FC and would like to send him a hard drive with already installed, as he is not an OS/Hardware guy.  
>>
>>Is it possible for me to install an IDE drive in my machine ( Pentium 486 D )
> 
> 
> Didn't Intel call the "586" processor family "Pentium" because they
> couldn't trademark numbers?

That's my understanding. But AMD produced a processor called
the 586, which is a 486 class processor.

> (my point being how can a "Pentium" also be "486"?)

AIUI, it cannot.

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