Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The CPUs You’ve NEVER Heard Of”.
Intel or AMD it’s the only real Choice. Any of us have for PC processors these days, but there was actually a time when this wasn’t the case today we’re looking back at high-end, CPUs of yesteryear that came from places, you might not expect. First up the NEC v20, a chip from 1984 with that old school centipede. Look since that predates modern LGA and even PGA sockets. They basically took an Intel 8088, a very popular chip at the time and one of the first to use the common x86 architecture and souped it.
The v20 had more than twice as many transistors as the 8088, and also had an extra internal data bus to move bits around more quickly. Additionally, it had an emulation mode for the old Intel 8080, enabling it to run programs designed for an operating system called CPM. Although x86 chips commonly ended up being paired with DOs CPM was actually still very common in business applications until the mid-1980s, So Not only was the NEC v20 a more powerful chip than the 8088, it was also significantly more versatile. There’S just one problem Intel never gave NEC permission to fiddle with their stuff, so naturally team blue, sued NHD for patent infringement.
However, NEC actually won because a judge ruled that Intel didn’t protect their copyright diligently enough and that NEC made enough modifications to Intel’s design that the v20 became a non-infringing product. However, nec’s later PC, CPUs didn’t do too well in the market and they stopped making new processors by 1990. But if you weren’t familiar with any sea chips, it might really surprise you that Microsoft actually dipped its toes into the processor Waters back in the late 1980s. But let’s be up front, it wasn’t Bill Gates, designing a new piece of silicon from scratch in his basement.
We’Ll tell you about what they actually did right after. We thank delete me, a solution for the increasing issue of personal information being easily shared online without consent. You can find hundreds of online profiles sharing your personal information with a simple Google search which can lead to annoying Robo calls and scam emails.
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This meant a significant boost in performance and the design was actually also pretty cool. You would unplug your old CPU, but instead of installing a new one, you’d, instead plug a ribbon cable into the CPU socket, which would then lead to the mach 10 board that you would also then insert into one of the motherboard’s expansion slots. And since it was a full-blown card, why not add more features to it like the mach 10 gave you a mouse port at which at the time would otherwise require its own separate add-in card, then, in 1987, Microsoft released the mach 20, which had a 286 processor? Oh holy crap, as well as a mouseport and even an option for a sort of granddaughter board that added another 3.5 Megs of ram, which was quite a lot for the time. This meant that you could run Windows 2.0 and even a version of os2 that Microsoft made specifically for the mach 20 with IBM, but this specific OS 2 had all sorts of performance problems and only 11 copies were sold.
That can’t be right. Could it probably software woes aside as new computers got cheaper and more functionality became integrated onto the average motherboard? The concept of using a separate expansion board to keep an older computer current fell by the wayside. A more practical option was the cyrix 6×86 released in 1995.. It was designed as a drop-in replacement for the original Pentium lineup cyrix had high hopes for their fancy new CPU as it was compatible with Pentium systems, but it was faster in terms of integer performance that is, operations that don’t involve a decimal point, most productivity software. As well as many games at the time use integer operations, so the design decision seemed to make some sense. But as any Tech Enthusiast knows, it’s never long before more powerful or more specialized Hardware comes along.
As the 1990s went on, more and more games started to utilize the floating Point units of contemporary CPUs, in particular the Blockbuster game. Quake might have heard of that one relied on the relatively strong floating Point Unit of the Pentium, meaning cyrex CPUs just couldn’t compete in quake and other applications that were gaining popularity. So, with a design that was decidedly stuck in the past, the 6×86 was relegated to the low end of the market. Cyrix was later bought out and, although they funnily enough, earned a reputation as Trailblazers in the budget CPU Market, their name eventually faded into Computing history. Like this episode, thanks for watching guys like dislike check out some of our other videos, comment, video suggestions down below and don’t forget to subscribe and follow. .