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 ?
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.
