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Intel's Pentium Chip Turns 20 Today

Posted by Soulskill on from the and-many-moore dept.

girlmad writes "Intel's Pentium processor was launched 20 years ago today, a move that led to the firm becoming the dominant supplier of computer chips across the globe. This article has some original iComp benchmark scores, rating the 66MHz Pentium at a heady 565, compared with 297 for the 66MHz 486DX2, which was the fastest chip available prior to the Pentium launch."

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  1. No tributes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No tributes should be paid to this abomination of micro architecture. The x86 ISA should have been shot dead and discarded of 20 years ago already. Porting code is more and more turning into a matter of just selecting a different architecture before you build. Will we ever move on? It's time to let go of your 30 year old corpses of x86 object code.