Gregory's Server@jalefkowit Thank you, that's super interesting! Now I finally know where the i386 I see all the time downloading software comes from. And I thought the story around amd64 was screwed up, lol.
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 @jalefkowit Thank you, that's super interesting! Now I finally know where the i386 I see all the time downloading software comes from. And I thought the story around amd64 was screwed up, lol. 1 comment
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@Natanox Oh yeah, totally. The 386 is the lizard brain inside every Intel processor even today. Tagging software as being for "i386" is just an easier way of saying "all this needs is a 32-bit x86 processor, nothing fancier."
(and re amd64, don't even get me started on Itanium πβ )