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Something is wrong with your story, possibly the year (or you lived in a poor place). The 486 DX33 was released in 1990 and was lower midrange in 1994. In 1996,

Something is wrong with your story, possibly the year (or you lived in a poor place). The 486 DX33 was released in 1990 and was lower midrange in 1994. In 1996, it was more or less outdated. I had that problem, a slow 486 in 1996 ;)

jillesvangurp 4y ago
It was a university computer. They wouldn't have had the latest and greatest. Pentium was released in 1993.
ant6n 4y ago
I had a 33MHz 386 in 1998 while my friends were playing quake on their early pentiums. It was hard to get DOS games at that time, being stuck on civI and wolfenstein…
- anthk 4y ago
  By 1998 a 486 CPU would've been be cheap enough.
  - ahartmetz 4y ago
    Basically free, my first upgrade a year or two earlier was a 486DX2-66 CPU + board "acquired" from an open container in front of a recycling operation.