Differences between current version and previous revision of x86.
Other diffs: Previous Major Revision, Previous Author, or view the Annotated Edit History
| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Monday, April 19, 2004 8:30:55 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Monday, April 19, 2004 8:10:13 pm | by StuartYeates | Revert |
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-Another
term for [ia32
]. (It was called x86 far before ia32;
[ia32
] came about when
[ia64
] was invented!
)
+A colloquial umbrella
term for the main
[Intel
] [CPU
] series (8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, i486,
[Pentium
], etc
), which stems from the numbering scheme of the chips up until the i486.
-It refers
to the
Intel series of processors ending
with "86
", ie 8086
, 80__286__
, 80__386__
, 80__486__
..
+In order
to be able to register a trademark, [
Intel] started giving the chips names after the i486. They started
with [Pentium] (derived from the Greek word for
"five
") in place of i586. However
, were they to be consequent
, the next i686 generation would have had to be called Hexium
, which they didn't do because "[Pentium]" was a well established brand. So the next generation was called "[Pentium] Pro"
, and the next chip, which was much closer to the [Pentium] Pro than to the Pentium, was called [Pentium] II. This is what happens when marketing has too much control of a company
.
+
+See also [ia32]
.
----
-CategoryHardware
+Part of
CategoryHardware
