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Happy Birthday, Intel's Pentium
14 today
MARCH 22 1993 saw Intel ship the first Pentium processor, clocking in at an astonishing 60MHz.
Replacing the 486, Chipzilla cocked a snook with the name as pundits had been confidently predicting it would be called the 80586. But Intel failed to convince the US Patent Office that it could patent a number, so it was named after Craig Barrett's horse instead.
We can count ourselves lucky we don't all have Dobbins in our PCs these days.
Built on a positively agricultural eight micron process and sporting a 50MHz front side bus, the Pentium eventually reached the dizzy heights of 300MHz before it was replaced by the Pentium II and finally put out to pasture in 1999.
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