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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?</H1>
    <B>Thierry Vignaud</B> 
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       TITLE="[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
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    <I>Sun Sep 26 23:55:41 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>2010/9/26 Giuseppe Ghib&#242; &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ghibomgx at gmail.com</A>&gt;:
&gt;&gt;<i> - Intel i586 (all)
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> - Intel Pentium Pro
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> - Intel Pentium II
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> - Intel Pentium III (Including some Pentium D)
</I>
(...)

&gt;<i> As I said I would see someone with such hardware, taking a CD of latest MDV
</I>&gt;<i> or cooker and try to install to do something and do a report.
</I>
I did run mandriva 2009.x on a PIII with 256Mb of RAM a year ago.
Hopefully upgraded to 512Mb
Yes video playback is painful on original i810 but it worked.

&gt;<i> You are forgetting a midrange. Which is the midrange of not the latest
</I>&gt;<i> hardware but a memory around 2-4GB RAM. In that set a 32bit OS is still
</I>&gt;<i> consuming 30-50% fewer memory than 64bit.
</I>
Yes x86_64 consumes a little more RAM.
But on the other hand it :
- leverages SS2,
- offers twice more regular registers that are twice bigger
  (and yes register pressure is a big issue on x86)
- offers twice more SSE registers
- enables to actually use the RAM between 3 and 4Gb which is not
usable on quite a lot of chipsets.
- it makes easier to use bigger disks (64bit math for adressing
sectors on big volumes is expensive on 32bit)


And PLEASE learn to QUOTE ONLY THE APPROPRIATE SHORT PASSAGES.
Thanks...
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