Iam curious whats the significants of having a X86 based PC ? Is it very common ,was it a more robust system when it was new it its time which was 2000 ? It just has my curiousity up because when going to the system information utility, under system type it says X86 BASSED PC , its a P3 750MHZ with 256M.B.SDRAM, 100FSB , I know by today standards its a dino ,however its been and still is a good stable PC ! Happy New Year Thanks to All Nick

Messy link Wikipedia I guess your curiosity wasn't great enough to check Google? Something of a non question, as the significance is that it's an industry standard, going back more than 20 years If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers

I know all about the x86 series, but why do some PC's say x86 series and some don't? I have a friend who's 98 machine had the x86 thing on the system properties and I used another one that did and my own personal 98 machine doesn't, it says Intel Pentium II. I know that info is in the registry, do people change their info to reflect that or something? Faris,

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Actually jboy , I did in fact do exactly what you suggested b/4 I poste this ? ,what I read wasc that the X86 was a "work station" catagorey based PC ,that in its day was given very good reveiws .I was just curious of how many others with Pentiums had knowledge ofthe X86 standard .I never seen it used as a selling point when PC manufactuers,plus my system is always reported as being based on the MMX system ! Thanks for Replies ! Nick

DISCLAIMER The following rant is only my opinion. I think that the term x86 has become almost meaningless, say, maybe, immediately after 486's. Or maybe 586's, I don't know. Sorta like (when I was actually young), cars: "Hey buddy what kinda mota' ya got in there?" Well, TECHNICALLY speaking, the only "mota" in the car is fer when I turn on the wipers or the heater. However, the ENGINE in this here (former) Toyota landcruiser is a '71 Dodge 340. or, "Hey, that thing is SICK." Well, when I was a kid, it somebody told me that, and I'd just kicked their tail in a little, uh, street thing, I'd'ha punched 'em one. However, according to the "chopper" boys on 'der TV, bein' "sick" is apparrently "cool", "hot," or whatever your word is now for OK.

All Intel and Intel Clone processors which are based on the 8086 codebase are x86 processors. the X denotes a prefix ie 80186, 80286, 80386 etcetc Even the new 64 bit AMD/Intel are based on x86 architecture, so no x86 is not specific to any one CPU, it just denotes a LINEAGE which can actually trace it roots back to the INTEL4004 Processor circa 1970