My first computer was based on the Intel 80386 microprocessor. Are you familiar with it?
No I am not, was it used in one of the first PCs released by IBM back in 1981?
I believe it was and a lot of other companies tried to emulate those IBMs, which were created with that processor. How fast were those processors, any idea?
The Intel 80386 was introduced in 1085 and it was 32-bit so in comparison to today's standards probably really slow but a massive evolution back in the day!
Interesting. So a floating point number would be limited by today's standards. I wonder how overcoming that 32-bit limitation, helped with scientific simulations and experiments.
It could correctly execute most code used in early PC's and all that was intended for 16-bit so I suppose that on it's own was already an experiment.
Hmm, that's cool - it was sounds like it was backwards compatible. How long did the 80386 last as the dominant chip?
I'm not sure but Intel is clearly one of the main brands dominating the market until today, they supply all the big brands as Apple, HP and Dell.
Intel definitely has the major market share. Any idea who is their biggest competition?
I think that would be AMD. Intel also manufactures other components like Motherboard Chipsets, Flash memory, graphic chips and other parts connected to computing.