[Cialug] Fast 486's and jumbo shrimp (was: Which Distro is best?)

[Nathan Stien]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
wrote:
>
> Wasn't the slowest 486 running at 25 MHz? 8 sounds a bit slow. How fast
> did Intel go with the 486? I know the 66 MHz version was quite popular
> for awhile. I seem to (vaguely) remember some late-model 486's at 75
> and 100 MHz. AMD made a 486 running at 133 MHz (i still have one
> running in a cardboard box as my firewall). I don't know about any
> faster than that though.


I find the idea of 133 MHz 486's amusing, mainly because my first pentium
ran at a blistering 60 MHz.  ~1995, IIRC.
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