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Re:SPARCbook 3000ST by jandrese on Friday March 29, 2019 @06:31PM (#19526205)
I remember the Alphas in the computer lab at school. They seemed nice enough but didn't seem that much faster than the Pentium chip in my personal computer and put out a lot of heat. Given the price of them vs. a Pentium 100 with FreeBSD it really was the end of days for the Unix Workstation.
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Re:SPARCbook 3000ST by ido on Saturday March 30, 2019 @02:42AM (#19528154)
The Pentium was really the Amiga of its time - it was a remarkable technological achievement & the first x86 CPU that could compete with workstation RISC CPUs, which was far from a trivial achievement.

If the 486 was the final nail in the m68k's coffin the pentium's was the same for the high-end RISCs.

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