History

[enewmen]

Which came first:
The Pentium [1] or Windows 95. ??

The Pentium was the first mature 32bit chip (the 386/486 where like 32bit stepping stones)

Why do I care?
To know if the Conroe is mature enough to help put an end to 32bit completely.
Maybe a Pentium 4 will out of gas running Vista the way a 486 runs Win XP?
I am just trying to see how these CPUs and OSs align.

If am wrong about this, what 32bit OS/Apps were used during the 386/486 years?
Was there an AMD K1-2-3-4 ?

thanks!

 

[Craigmandu]

This link will give you all the processors from quite some time ago to relatively new.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/12/20/the_mother_of_all_cpu_charts_part_1/

To highlight and steal information: Socket 4, presented in 1993, was finally developed for two processors: the Intel Pentium 60 and the Pentium 66 - so the first pentium was well before Windows 95 debut.

AMD at that time were developing 486 DX level chips that were commonly interchanged with Intel DX chips. Some at a DX-2 rating (60, 66 mhz), some at DX-4 (100, 120, 133)

AMD moved to the K5 line in 1993 starting at 75mhz and going to 166, then debuted the K6 line after that which had multiple renditions, the K6, K6-2, K6-3........

Check out that link, it has all of the history on when these processors were introduced and by which company.

 

[linux_0]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Pentium

$Pentium_release_date ="March 22, 1993";

$win95_release_date="August 24, 1995";

The K series started with the K5 first launched in 1995.