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486 Turns 15 Years Old

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the looking-back dept.

wooby writes "The 486 processor , introduced in 1989 at 25 and 33MHz clock speeds, is now 15 years old. Intel's simultaneous launch of both the 486, a CISC chip, and the i860, a RISC chip, was a gamble. Remarks Intel's former CEO, Andy Grove: 'our equivocation caused our customers to wonder what Intel really stood for, the 486 or i860?'"

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  1. Re:That website they linked to... by Roland+Piquepialle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Windows 3 ran in real mode on anything less than a 386, so sorry, it didn't switch to anything. I know 286's have some sort of protected mode but Windows didn't use it.