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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?'"

8 of 495 comments (clear)

  1. in case it gets slashdotted... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    TFA is teh SUCK!

  2. FP hahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hehehe hmmm

  3. YOU FAIL IT. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    u fail it hard

  4. trOll4ore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    one or the other Design approa#ch. As Is also a miserable paalid bodies and

  5. Re:jup by rebeka+thomas · · Score: 0, Troll

    Young kids now think 1GHz isn't enough to browse web & email. That's not just wrong, it ends up wasteful
    I think your from a different time thats gone past its usefullness. Me for one, I web browse, email, do a little photoshopping and run a web server on my box. Like to see you try doing that on 1ghz.

    Some people just have a use for more power than u know.

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    RST
  6. Re:jup by Zeinfeld · · Score: -1, Troll
    15 years old and still routing my packets. :)) Lol. Me too! I use a Compaq XE 450 as one of my routers and it happily chugging away.

    Oh dear, I am writing this on my original IBM System 360 by punching the holes in the paper tape by hand. Does that mean that I win?

    If you are surfing the Web with anything less than a 6GHz Pentium 6 with 8 Trilobites of Memory you are beneath contempt.

    Claims for nostalgia points ane utterly pathetic unless you are using a machine manufactured before the Napoleonic war.

    And no operating system snobbery claims are credible unless they involve Open Genera running on a Multics Host.

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    Looking for an Information Security student project suggestion?
    Try http://dotcrimeManifesto.com/
  7. 15. fifteen YEARS? FIFTEEN years? by lkcl · · Score: 0, Troll

    15 years. fuck me. is that all?

  8. Haruki Murakami, postmodernist author, dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - writer Haruki Murakami was found dead in his apartment in Tokyo this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to the awakening of Japan's stillborn literary establishment. Truly a Japanese, American and Italian icon.