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One thing that article doesnrCOt mention was how enormous the chip
package was -- it was about the size of a VHS videocassette.

1993 was also the year the Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance first showed
off their PowerPC chips. Those initial 60- and 66-MHz Pentiums were
the butt of merciless jokes, not just over their inferior performance,
but how it looked even worse if you compared performance per watt of
power consumed.

About a year or two later, Intel switched to a new fab process, and
brought out the Pentium-90. ThatrCOs when the tables started to turn
against PowerPC.
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On 2026-03-22, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

<https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-released-its-first-pentium-chip-on-this-day-33-years-ago-came-packing-3-1-million-transistors-fifth-gen-x86-chip-built-on-an-800nm-process>

One thing that article doesnrCOt mention was how enormous the chip
package was -- it was about the size of a VHS videocassette.

You mean the commercial packaging for on-shelf sale?

Because otherwise the processor itself is quite small, isn't it,
especially compared to Slot 1 assemblies?

1993 was also the year the Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance first showed
off their PowerPC chips. Those initial 60- and 66-MHz Pentiums were
the butt of merciless jokes, not just over their inferior performance,
but how it looked even worse if you compared performance per watt of
power consumed.

Don't forget its IEEE754 operation performance, especially where
division is concerned :-P

About a year or two later, Intel switched to a new fab process, and
brought out the Pentium-90. ThatrCOs when the tables started to turn
against PowerPC.

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Nuno Silva
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On 2026-03-22, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 2026-03-22, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

1993 was also the year the Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance first showed
off their PowerPC chips. Those initial 60- and 66-MHz Pentiums were
the butt of merciless jokes, not just over their inferior performance,
but how it looked even worse if you compared performance per watt of
power consumed.

Don't forget its IEEE754 operation performance, especially where
division is concerned :-P

"I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated."
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On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:21:47 +0000, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2026-03-22, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 2026-03-22, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

1993 was also the year the Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance first showed
off their PowerPC chips. Those initial 60- and 66-MHz Pentiums were
the butt of merciless jokes, not just over their inferior performance,
but how it looked even worse if you compared performance per watt of
power consumed.

Don't forget its IEEE754 operation performance, especially where
division is concerned :-P

"I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated."

Intel did in fact replace three chips for me.
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