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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?</H1>
    <B>R James</B> 
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    <I>Fri Sep 24 22:51:41 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Sinner from the Prairy
&lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">sinnerbofh at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;<i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">patrice.brunelle at free.fr</A> wrote:
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Wikipedia says that X86_64 include SSE/SSE2. All the new processors are 64
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> bits. So I don't think it is necessary to change i586 to i686. 32 bits
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> platform will die soon. Also it is more important to keep more
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> compatibility for 32 bits.
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</I>&gt;<i> Well said.
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</I>&gt;<i> No need to maintain extra repos with minor imoprovements on target archs.
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Technically, the i686 started with the Pentium Pro.  (Remember that?  :o)

<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P6_(microarchitecture">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P6_(microarchitecture</A>)
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