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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

The Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever

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The Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever

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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Intel's i386 brought 32-bit registers to x86 and paved the way for Windows 3.0 and Linux.
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    6502 was my poison.

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      Mine too, just after Z80. Then 68000 (later plus add-on 286 board) and only after it was a pure 386.

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