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Feel free to tag this as ‘late’ but he had a ‘Pentium’486 at age 3? I clearly remember having a .486 computer in 1994 and desperately wanting to murder my friend for his new fangled Pentium processor which was the next generation. Am i misremembering and there were indeed Pentium 486 computers or is this IT expert notmsuch an expert...
No, Mr Tech Expert just totally fucked up. The Pentium is what came after the 486 (pent as in 5, as in pentagram or pentagon -- marketing speak for 586, basically). I remember people joking about what comes next, the Sexium?
It went 8086 (IBM XT), 80286 (IBM AT), 80386, 80486 and Pentium. There was an 80186, I think, but it wasn't used for a desktop PC. I remember all of these because I am old.