4 ms·
i386 is a architecture. Really they should be calling it IA-32 which is the real name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32
by sdinsn 7y ago
i386 is a architecture. Really they should be calling it IA-32 which is the real name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32
i586 / i686 are later iterations of IA-32
- Phrodo_00 7y agoIA-32 would imply it'd run in any IA-32 processor, the same as i386 since later versions are backwards compatible up to there, so they're functionally the same. It won't run in i486 or i386, though, so they're both inaccurate names