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Yep. The P5 arch (original Pentium) superscalar design, combined with its much faster FPU and separation of data and code caches meant it could run circles ar
by pak9rabid 3y ago
Yep. The P5 arch (original Pentium) superscalar design, combined with its much faster FPU and separation of data and code caches meant it could run circles around a 486-based CPU, even if it was running up to twice the speed of a 486 contender.
- mrlonglong 3y agoI had a dual Pentium Pro 166Mhz w/512kb caches running on a Tyan mobo. That thing was fast under Linux. EDIT: Present day, rocking a thread ripper with 48 logical cores. Still running Linux.