From: Alessandro Baretta (alex@baretta.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 17:46:09 EDT
Zsigri Gyula wrote:
> You can download two zipped versions of each abispell
> pack from
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/ ,
> an i386 version and a ppc version.  What is the
> difference?  What do i386 and ppc stand for?
They indicate two different computer architectures: i386 
indicates Intel 386 and subsequent processors (i486 and 
Pentium/Pro/MMX/II/III/4), as well as compatible processors 
from AMD, Cyrix, VIA and others. PPC stands for PowerPC, a 
more recent computer architecture devised by IBM, Motorola 
and Apple, and used mostly, but not exclusively, on Apple 
iMacs, PowerMacs and PowerBooks.
If you have a Windows compatible PC then you are using an 
x86 computer and must download the i386 files. If you have a 
PowerMac or ther PowerPC computer, then you must download 
the PPC files.
I hope you will find this information useful.
Alex
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