Pentium Compatible Processor
A Pentium compatible processor (or Pentium clone) is a 32-bit processor computer chip which supports the instructions in the IA-32 instruction set that were implemented by the Intel P5 Pentium processor family (also known as Classic Pentium, or original Pentium). The IA-32 instruction set first appeared in the 80386 processor; the 80486 added a few instructions to IA-32, and the P5 Pentium family added a few more instructions beyond that.
Pentium compatible processors are sometimes referred to as 586-architecture processors. Later processors are also considered to be Pentium compatible, because they still support the instructions supported by the P5 Pentium family.
This class of processors is typically used in IBM PC compatible computers.
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