alt Hacker NewsPentium is a bad processor? It's way faster than 486, especially on FP it's not even close.
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Sheeplator • today at 1:47 PM
The Pentium was great, but the 60 and 66MHz versions were not liked, they ran way too hot.
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Pentium is a bad processor? It's way faster than 486, especially on FP it's not even close.
The Pentium was great, but the 60 and 66MHz versions were not liked, they ran way too hot.
The original Pentiums (socket 4, 60 or 66 MHz) had the infamous floating point division bug, had underwhelming perf for anything not FP bound (most things), ran hot, and were too expensive for what you got. A DX/4 100 was nearly always a more rational choice.
Second gen Pentiums, starting with the 75 MHz, were great.