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.