Reply 20 of 26, by appiah4
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wrote:Yeah, as the 386 before, they had the 486 as a special high end market segment CPU for quite a long time, since consumer applications were so few. 486DX2's became mainstream as they brought out the early Pentiums in '93, and then as Pentiums became mainstream they brought out the Pentium Pro. Barely a gap anymore at that point.
This was a case of intel abusing its monopoly, as they cockblocked AMD to the x86 license, they just sold the 486 as exorbitant prices until AMD could come up with their own design (reverse engineer the i80486) and get the Am486 to the market. Intel has been Intel ever since. This is basically the same thing they've been doing with Xeons for half a decade, and behold, all of a sudden Xeons are in the mainstream now that AMD have Ryzen and Threadripper in the market.
Fuck you Intel.
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