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		EvanAnderson on Aug 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 286 vs. 386SX The AMD 5x86/133 was a similar kind of situation. Drop one of those into a decent 486 board w/ some L2 cache and you got better than 75Mhz Pentium performance at a ridiculously low price point as compared to a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM.

noir_lord on Aug 19, 2021 [–]

And again with the Athlon XP1800+ then Opteron.

AMD has had moments where it really stuck it to intel but always fell back to 2nd, I hope this time it sticks.

x86 vendors duking it out while Apple keeps both honest isn't a bad market for a buyer.

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