Happy birthday, x86! An industry standard turns 30

@ 2008/06/09
Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel Corp. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding "the dawn of a new era." Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the 8086 was slow to take off, its underlying architecture -- later referred to as x86 -- would become one of technology's most impressive success stories.

"X86" refers to the set of machine language instructions that certain microprocessors from Intel and a few other companies execute. It essentially defines the vocabulary and usage rules for the chip. X86 processors -- from the 8086 through the 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486 and various Pentium models, right down to today's multicore chips and processors for mobile applications -- have over time incorporated a growing x86 instruction set, but each has offered backward compatibility with earlier members of the family.

Comment from Massman @ 2008/06/09
C'mon, windows 95 should be doable
Comment from geoffrey @ 2008/06/09
no hotlinking
Comment from jmke @ 2008/06/09
run this tool to get CPU-Z ranking
http://hwbot.org/signature.img?iid=97919&thumb=false
Comment from geoffrey @ 2008/06/09
its running early DOS
Comment from jmke @ 2008/06/09
SuperPi?
Comment from geoffrey @ 2008/06/09
Still have one of those running over here