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On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:53, Davide Bianchi stood up and addressed the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.miscas follows...:

An AMD K-6 was not ani486clone but rather a Pentium MMX clone. The K-5 was a first-generation Pentium clone, but if I recall correctly, then the K-6 already had the "3D Now!" technology. The K-7 - also known as the Thunderbird - was a Pentium II clone, and the Athlon a Pentium III clone. This is why Athlons were still considered K-7's, just as the Pentium III (an Pentium 4) were still consideredi686,just like the Pentium Pro and Pentium II.

All of the aforementioned of course under wide interpretations of the word "clone" - similar to how GNU-Linux is a UNIX "clone" - because internally, those CPU's were quite different from the way their Intel counterparts worked. There were even a few "external"x86code incompatibilities between the Intels and the K5-K6 series, which caused some problems with the stability of certain proprietary software on those CPU's at the time.

For the Athlon XP and MP, the architecture was still the same as for the "unspecified" Athlon, but with a few extras added, while Intel opted for the Pentium 4, which was a different architecture - i.e. "Netburst".

The current Intel CPU's again have more in common with the Pentium III than with the Pentium 4, and of course, the current AMD's are quite different from the Intels, via their on-chip memory controller, among other things.

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (registered GNU-Linux user #223157)