First post, by aries-mu
Hey guys,
in my ideal world, the official name of the Intel Pentium CPU would have been simply 586. Same graphics style as 486s.
I know I know, trademark protection and stuff. I'm just saying, in my ideal world.
I was so drooling over the windows of magazines stores (there was no internet yet, rememba? 🤣), waiting for that huge "586" on the cover.... and then none... Pentium.
And, wanna laugh? Well, at a certain point, when the "586" was almost expected, first days of the month, like every month, I run to the magazines store to drool over the shelf. As usual, the first few days of the month they didn't get the new issue of my favorite computer magazine, and I would try again every day, until delivered.
One day, I enter one of the magazine stores of my little southern Italian town, I still remember which one and the scenery... All the magazines were exposed on the shelf, frontally, like you could see all the covers, except, every magazine partially overlapped the previous one, so that, for each magazine, you could only see about half-ish of its cover...
So I see it!!! there it is!!! The new issue!!! and guess what did stand on the cover? a HUGE:
58
Covered by the next magazine (that I don't remember what was it).
So I freak out and think: they made it! Intel released the 586 CPU!!!! And this issue of the magazine is all about that!!!!!
Until... the cover was saying:
58 386 SX
It was a review of 58 PCs with 386 SX CPUs.
Lol, can you imagine my disappointment?
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