I finally got around to looking at the "Mother of All CPU Charts" article at Tom's Hardware. I really dig these sorts of things, as it typically gets me all geek-nostalgic and invariably there are a few interesting things from years past that I never knew. This one is broken up into two parts, but discusses history and performance of CPU's from the 8086 up to current-generation processors. There are even benchmarks comparing up to 111 processors, pretty intense. Only AMD and Intel processors are covered, but I suppose you can forgive that (Cyrix has sort of become irrelevant by now).
I remember working at a computer store in 1996, and being amazed that the lowest-end system we sold was a Pentium 100. I asked my boss why, and he said it simply wasn't profitable to sell anything less. I thought it was nuts!
Anyway, here are the links. Some fun reading for the dorks among us. Wax geekstalgic and post your reveries!
Part 1
Part 2
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February 2nd, 2005 10:41 AM #1Bullfrog
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