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Who can tell me the difference between "386" and &

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Who can tell me the difference between "386" and "alpha" and "spar" in linux? Thank you!
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WHAT???

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EJEMMMMMM WHAT????

CISC vs RISC...???

Not this forum!!! 8O
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about the only help i can be is to say that they are different proccessor types. 386's are your pentium class chips (PI, PII, PIII, P4, Celeron, all AMD's, etc..). alpha's are a 64-bit processor which have a lot of muscule behind them but unfortunately there aren't many applications compiled to work on them. as to what a spar is i do not know. hope this helps.
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"spar" is probably a typo for "sparc", ie Sun's hardware.

If you are running Linux on a home PC, you almost definately want a 386 kernel. (Unless its a Mac, then you;'ll want "powerpc" I beleive)
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