On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:48:21 -0600, phaeton >
wrote:

>"x86" is slang for the instruction set of the Intel "8086" family of
>processors (and clones), which modern PC processors have decended from
>(80286, 80386, 80486, 80586, 80686, etc). So when someone says "way
>back in the day on my 486!" they're talking about the 80486 processor.

Oh, OK... I've heard of 486. I think our first computer was a 286.
It didn't have a hard drive, but cost something like $2400 (from an
independent vendor), so we saved money. It had two huge floppy disks.
One was the software and other one was storage.


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