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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish ·
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The Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever

www.tomshardware.com

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

www.tomshardware.com

Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish ·
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Intel's i386 brought 32-bit registers to x86 and paved the way for Windows 3.0 and Linux.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37643712

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    It really was a huge step up. When I typed “dir” the file list appeared instantly rather than line by line like it did on my 286.

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    Congratulations x86. Now please go and retire

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