The Intel 386 Story for Kids

[ZXRulezzz]

If there were no intel and no ugly useless calculator called IBM PC and compatibles, there could be Motorola 68k and PowerPC and Amiga. Or, at least, MSX TurboR or something else like that... But sadly they all screwed up :( IMHO

[VintageJunior]

The first computers were the Zuse machines, which were developed BEFORE and while WW2. So the British and Americans have nothing to do with it.

[tomp2008]

ahh nostalgia.. still remember playing the original King's Quest on my 386DX.

[oscarmartinez50]

im the new intel, oscarmartinez50!

[ostieguy]

ENIAC was NOT the first computer.  It was the first ELECTRONIC computer.

[Imprezaman555]

no, there were electronic computers b4, ENIAC was the first one to use a modern-ish architecture.

[ComputerHistory]

Prior to ENIAC there were several early computers that utilized electronics as a part of their architecture but ENIAC is often credited as being the first general purpose electronic computer.

With about 18,000 vacuum tubes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, and 10,000 capacitors, ENIAC was the largest electronic device of its time. It consumed enough power for 50 homes and was capable of 5,000 operations per second. The principal designers were J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly.

[tonyrueb]

@Imprezaman555 - one that comes to mind is the Bombs used in England during WWII but they where designed to break the Enigma code and only to break there code. you couldn't do much else with it. all other computers at the time could only do one thing at a time, and i dont think the Bombs used any vacuum tubes, it was heavy mechanical

[Imprezaman555]

@tonyrueb but that is pretty much what I mean, the ENIAC was programmable, unlike the others, although the z3 i believe was, also it did use primitive floating point.

[morgs2020]

Intel is now working on Itaniums with between 2-16 billion transistors @ 65nm-22nm.

[morgs2020]

He gets possessed by Christopher Walken

@ 04:24  "You know mine"

[Albesa81]

"Drop out at Harvard because Bill Gates has a lot more money than these other two people." LOOOL XD

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

This one is awful since most of it was about one individual, nazis, Hungarian jews, and later communist (about 25-30min) rather than about one of the most revolutionary cpus the i386. 2/5

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

I still got my 386 unmarked (no logo pre sx era) that runs at 16mhz.

[rhodri24]

FAKE

[cpurkiser]

Alphasys what the heck are you talking about? There is a lot of controversy in technology, about who was first, including who was the inventor of the first Integrated Circuit chip (Kilby or Noyce).

But there is almost no dispute other a crackpot inventor and his lawyer, that the Intel 4004 was the first microprocessor.

Although the distinction is somewhat artificial the "brains" of most "dumb" cell phones are considered microcontrollers not microprocessors.

[raulitech]

wasnt that computer used in world war 2 used by the british the first computer?

[computergasm]

ENIAC? i cant remember if it was the brits or the yanks, but yer, the first electric one

[CSIXTY4]

Yes, the Colossus predates ENIAC by a few years. Colossus was more or less limited to breaking Enigma codes, whereas ENIAC was a general-purpose, Turing-complete computer.

[Alphasys]

This presentation is filled with fallacies, to make it pallatable for the young. I kinda resent that. It's not how the MuPee was conceived, nor does it state how they were first thought of. But since Intel is a market leader, in developing the current microprocessors, it was bent. Most microprocessors in cell phones, and other devices besides the PC's, are made by japanese and korean manufacturers nowadays. Even philips makes MuPees. This is a big advertisement for Intel, but it's not the truth.

[Alphasys]

The micro processor isn't an invention of Intel. Still it is a significant step towards the current computer industry. And Intel had a large share in developing these things. But they were not the initiator of the concept, they followed. So the bloke at 2-3 minutes is talking nonsense in his praise towards Intel.

[TheLarssan]

Desktop PCs and Macs.

[thanatos454]

first

[XPZION7]

lol

[thanatos454]

Yeah, Idk why but I just felt compelled to put that. I very rarely get to be the first post and the first view. :-\