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specproc • today at 8:04 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

I remember writing a cyberpunk story as a kid, in which everyone was rocking badass 786s.

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coldpie • today at 2:43 PM

    1974: Intel 8080
    1978: Intel 8086
    1982: Intel 80286
    1985: Intel 80386
    1990: Intel 8010386
    1995: Intel 801040386
    2005: Intel 80107045386
    2025: Intel 8.010207659386e12
pavlov • today at 11:41 AM

The Pentium III does sound like a good chip choice for a retro cyberpunk story. Like they said in “The Matrix”, 1999 was the peak of human civilization.

(586 became Pentium, so 686 would be the Pentium Pro/II microarchitecture.)

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geocrasher • today at 4:13 PM

I recall as a teen wondering if the 486 was so good, how amazing a 1086 was going to be someday :D

vikingerik • today at 1:39 PM

Not just you: the Tom Swift novels reboot in the 1990s had Tom once bragging about "the latest seven-eighty-six processor."