Per Vognsen on Nostr: I distinctly remember that at least in Danish computer media at the time (and ...
I distinctly remember that at least in Danish computer media at the time (and enthusiasts informed by that media) there were a ton of people who hated the Pentium. Even prior to launch and before the FDIV bug was known, so it definitely wasn't based on that. I was stuck on our old family 486 way past the Pentium 1 era. At this point I don't even remember what it was about, but I do remember it fueled a lot of defections to AMD and Cyrix CPUs. Maybe it was primarily a cost issue--anyone remember?
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