Clan x86

General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: iCeD on January 22, 2005, 04:41:23 pm

Title: x86?
Post by: iCeD on January 22, 2005, 04:41:23 pm

What exactly is an x86 machine?  I've been interested in starting programming/ white hat hacking and have seen websites mentioning x86 machines.

Title: Re: x86?
Post by: iago on January 22, 2005, 05:36:30 pm

x86 is intel's architecture.  You might remember the i386 and i486 cpu's -- those were the older x86 variants.

Technically, the 486 was a "Intel 80486" or the family is "intel 80x86" which gets shortened to ix86 usually.