65 CPUs From 100 MHz to 3066 MHz

socram writes " Tom's Hardware posted an interesting article, describing and benchmarking 65 kinds of CPUs from 1994 to 2003. Opinions on what constitutes "adequate computing speed" vary greatly from one user to the next. While one person may be perfectly content with an old Pentium 133 system that stores stamp club membership details in a DOS program in "real-time mode", there is another group at the other end of the scale - video fans who must have the latest and greatest and who will clamor for more and more Gigahertz and gigabytes."

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10 years of boring uniformity

[shoppa]

How can 10 years of Intel-x86-and-x86-clone CPU's be considered "interesting"? Boring uniformity and ass-backwards compatibility is more appropriate.

Now for more vaguely interesting benchmarks (extending back to the early 70's, and not a single x86-clone in sight) see this alt.folklore.computers thread. A real historical perspective would have to go back to the 1940's.