What came after the 486?
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What came after the 486?
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Re: What came after the 486?
#2Ah the pentium, aka 5-ium due to the penta- prefix. It is actually a nod from 4 to 5, but Intel wanted some cool name, and they decided penta + premium would sound cool, hence pentium.
But still, internally we call it i586, because that's the way it is. so is Pentium MMX which I reckon is called i686.
Re: What came after the 486?
#3Ah the pentium, aka 5-ium due to the penta- prefix. It is actually a nod from 4 to 5, but Intel wanted some cool name, and they decided penta + premium would sound cool, hence pentium. But still, internally we call it i586, because that's the way it is. so is Pentium MMX which I reckon is called i686.
Trademarks
> The name invoked the number five, but was completely trademarkable, unlike the number 586.
Re: What came after the 486?
#4Ah the pentium, aka 5-ium due to the penta- prefix. It is actually a nod from 4 to 5, but Intel wanted some cool name, and they decided penta + premium would sound cool, hence pentium. But still, internally we call it i586, because that's the way it is. so is Pentium MMX which I reckon is called i686.
> but Intel wanted some cool name, and they decided penta + premium would sound cool, hence pentium
some say that they tried to add 486 with 100 and the result had some numbers after the comma, that's why they named it pentium (yes, i know about the FDIV bug)
Re: What came after the 486?
#5Yea I'll take "Things that make me feel old for $1000 Alex."
Re: What came after the 486?
#6Yea I'll take "Things that make me feel old for $1000 Alex."
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Re: What came after the 486?
#7Ah the pentium, aka 5-ium due to the penta- prefix. It is actually a nod from 4 to 5, but Intel wanted some cool name, and they decided penta + premium would sound cool, hence pentium. But still, internally we call it i586, because that's the way it is. so is Pentium MMX which I reckon is called i686.
i686 was the microarchitecture introduced with the Pentium Pro and then Pentium II.
Re: What came after the 486?
#8I remember writing a cyberpunk story as a kid, in which everyone was rocking badass 786s.
Re: What came after the 486?
#9The years when Pentium came was a bit of an shitshow. As the article said, there were 7 companies producing 486 processors but after that the market was mostly Intel, AMD and little Cyrix. Then came socket-A vs. slot-A etc. Now looking back it seems like there was lot of changes in short period of time.
Re: What came after the 486?
#10Ah the pentium, aka 5-ium due to the penta- prefix. It is actually a nod from 4 to 5, but Intel wanted some cool name, and they decided penta + premium would sound cool, hence pentium. But still, internally we call it i586, because that's the way it is. so is Pentium MMX which I reckon is called i686.
I always figured the "-ium" part was in imitation of element naming, to make it sound scientific