alt Hacker NewsIt was really the 386 that was the beginning of modern computing, since it had a mmu.
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theodorethomas • today at 3:19 PM
Except the 486 had hardware floating point, essential for technical work.
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It was really the 386 that was the beginning of modern computing, since it had a mmu.
Except the 486 had hardware floating point, essential for technical work.
Several operating systems on 286 (eg Xenix, Coherent, OS/2) used its MMU for multitasking and memory protection. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80286#Protected_mode