Subj : Re: Hi all!
To   : Nightfox
From : hyjinx
Date : Sun Sep 07 2025 09:35 pm

 Ni> From what I remember, it wasn't common practice for CPUs until Intel start
 Ni> their Core i3/i5/i7 line (in 2009, I think?) and they started making new
 Ni> versions every year.  I remember with the 286, 386, etc., it was maybe 3-4
 Ni> years between new generations of a CPU, and in the meantime, you'd mainly 
 Ni> see faster versions (higher megahertz) and different variants sometimes, s
 Ni> as SX and DX, etc..

Yeah I think you're right. 
8088 was the OG IBM PC CPU and that was a subset of the 1979-based 8086.
I have a feeling that the 80186 was fairly early too, but that never saw much use. The 80286 was 1982 IIRC. The 80386 was 1985. The 80486 was 1989. Pentium was 1993, P2 1997, P3 1999, and then it started to change. This is around the time when I started to lose interest in PC hardware. The P4 came out only a year later in 2000, and the chips kept on coming out after then. The Core2 Duo, then the Core i3/i5/i7/i9 stuff is still with us now, just they have different 'bumps' in numbering model. Yawn.


hyjinx // Alistair Ross
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