Talk:I686
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[edit] i686 is Intel's definition?
Someone slap me if Intel would ever call anything x86 anymore... i686 is a term used by LINUX distributions in the way the article talks.
Except that 786 is the Pentium 4... And 586's shouldn't be in this article.
132.205.15.5 03:41, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- IIRC they _were_ called i686's for some time way back then, before the fancy names (Pentium, Athlon, etc) began to pop up. sydneyfong 09:40, 2 Jan 2005 (GMT)
- Numerous sources on the internet list Pentium 4 as i786. The P4 page on Wikipedia itself mentions how the architecture has little to do with the i686 CPUs. However, it is interesting to note that Intel has completely ditched the design and is going back to i686 (as pointed out on the P4 page). P4 should be considered i786, but I'm wondering if many years from now when Intel/AMD design new archetectures if THOSE will be considered i786. It's likely that historically the P4 will just be considered i686 by people, and whatever comes after will be considered i786. Regardless of this, the P4 is NOT i686, so it should be removed from this page. Or a note added ("P4 is not i686, but a new architecture, sometimes referred to i786"). It would be good to find an official source from Intel's page, but I'm afraid I am quite busy and I just wanted to throw this information out there for someone else to consider.--24.50.80.47 02:01, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
Actually, most of those chips are i886s. I think this is the reason that Intel was so desperate to switch to Itanic and change the Pentium line's name over to "Xeon" and "Core Whatever". Pentium is a reference to "penta-", meaning five, an obvious allusion to the original Pentium's actually being the 80586. Think of it this way:
| • | Real Name | Marketing Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 80186 | 80186 |
| 2nd | 80286 | 286 |
| 3rd | 80386 | 386 |
| 4th | 80486 | 486 |
| 5th | 80586 | Pentium |
| 6th | 80686 | Pentium II |
| 7th | 80786 | Pentium III |
| 8th | 80886 | Pentium IV |
| 9th | 80986 | Pentium V |
| 10th | Nothing left! | Pentium VI |
It's just x86 plus five!
Yeah, sure. So Intel has one more hypothetical Pentium left before the 80x86 line implodes, but Grove didn't get where he is by being careless! Intel's keeping the P5 in reserve, just in case they have to dump the new names before the can migrate everybody over to the Itanic, EV8 or whatever. :-) 208.54.14.73 17:26, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Why is everybody so obsessed with inventing spurious designations for the Pentium processors? Intel are quite capable of identifying their own processor architectures (P5, P6, P68, NGMA) and chips (80501, 80502, 80503, 80521, 80522 etc) most of the time, even if their marketing department have different ideas :-). Letdorf 13:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC).
