Slideshow: A History of Intel x86 in 20 CPUs

[email protected] wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
From 1971 to 2012, the chips that built the PC revolution
Would there have been a PC revolution had Intel decided in the late 1960s to stick to making memory chips and turn its back on microprocessors? Almost certainly, but the company did get into CPUs and IBM chose its 8088 chip to build into its first Personal Computer, the 5150.…

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