Re: Linux for x86 or Intel

  • From: Fernando <fernandoluis@xxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 15:00:29 -0700

AMD, Via, Transmeta, etc, can all be classified as "x86" and they are 
not definitely "Intel"

And "Linux" is not the same as "LInux/x86". There are Linux for the 
PowerPC (Apple, IBM, etc) and other platforms.

Fernando
Optier

On May 26, 2004, at 2:23 PM, Smith, Ron L. wrote:

> The Oracle website has release documentation for Oracle 9.2 on x86 
> based
> Linux and on the next line they have the same documentation for Oracle
> 9.2 on Intel based Linux.
>
> I thought Intel and x86 were the same thing.  Can anyone explain the
> difference?

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