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

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 8:56 pm
by jianxh
Who can tell me the difference between "386" and "alpha" and "spar" in linux? Thank you!

WHAT???

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 11:44 pm
by AVATAr
EJEMMMMMM WHAT????

CISC vs RISC...???

Not this forum!!! 8O

Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 12:58 am
by Takuma
Search the might Google!

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 10:21 pm
by mydimension
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.

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 10:25 pm
by nielsene
"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)