> 1990's? Once it was 1995 you wouldn't be caught dead with a 486. I remember going from my 486 to something higher being rather expensive. Expensive processor

> 1990's? Once it was 1995 you wouldn't be caught dead with a 486. I remember going from my 486 to something higher being rather expensive. Expensive processor, new mainboard needed and depending on what your non-ISA bus situation was, a new graphics card. Benefit, compared to the late-stage triple-digit-mhz 486s? Well, better floating point, but Quake came out a bit later. I remember mp3 decoding failing a bit with my 486/133... And I saw plenty of Borland C++ used for Windows development.