Subj : Re: Hi all!
To   : hyjinx
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Sep 07 2025 08:24 am

  Re: Re: Hi all!
  By: hyjinx to Nightfox on Sun Sep 07 2025 09:35 pm

 hy> 8088 was the OG IBM PC CPU and that was a subset of the 1979-based 8086. I
 hy> have a feeling that the 80186 was fairly early too, but that never saw
 hy> much use. The 80286 was 1982 IIRC. The 80386 was 1985. The 80486 was 1989.
 hy> Pentium was 1993, P2 1997, P3 1999, and then it started to change. This is
 hy> around the time when I started to lose interest in PC hardware.

When you say you lost interest in PC hardware, did you switch to Mac?  And around 2006 or so, Apple started using Intel processors for the Mac, so it was basically using PC hardware too..

Nightfox
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