Did you know that Intel is still manufacturing 386 and 486 microprocessors?

[Random Variable]

The 386 has been in production for 20 years, while the 486 has been in production for 17 years. They're still being used in embedded systems. Production will end next year, though.

 

[91TTZ]

Last time I checked, the 80186 was still being made, too.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Random Variable
The 386 has been in production for 20 years, while the 486 has been in production for 17 years. They're still being used in embedded systems. Production will end next year, though.

what do you think controls the Hubble Space Telescope?

 

[Random Variable]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: Random Variable
The 386 has been in production for 20 years, while the 486 has been in production for 17 years. They're still being used in embedded systems. Production will end next year, though.

what do you think controls the Hubble Space Telescope?

It was launched 16 years ago.

 

[keeleysam]

Have they shrunk the dies to 65nm? lol.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: Random Variable
The 386 has been in production for 20 years, while the 486 has been in production for 17 years. They're still being used in embedded systems. Production will end next year, though.

what do you think controls the Hubble Space Telescope?

Aliens? Jim Morrison with an Atari 2600 joystick? A slug?

I give up, tell me.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Damn, now you tell me. I just bought a 186!

 

[Shawn]

Damn. I have a bunch of old 386, 486 and 586 cpus. I wonder if I could sell them to Nasa.

 

[AmdEmAll]

 

[Random Variable]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Last time I checked, the 80186 was still being made, too.

Wiki clams that the 80186 was produced only from 1980-1982.

 

[Random Variable]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Damn, now you tell me. I just bought a 186!

What are you going to do with it? Eat it?

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Random Variable

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: Random Variable
The 386 has been in production for 20 years, while the 486 has been in production for 17 years. They're still being used in embedded systems. Production will end next year, though.

what do you think controls the Hubble Space Telescope?

It was launched 16 years ago.

don't forget; it had an upgrade a few years back. I believe its a 486. All of the electronics have to pass rigorous tests before they can be put into space.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: Random Variable

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Damn, now you tell me. I just bought a 186!

What are you going to do with it? Eat it?

I keep it on my desk at work and listen to Kraftwerk's 1981 song Homecomputer.

"I program my home computer...beam myself into the future..."

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Random Variable

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Last time I checked, the 80186 was still being made, too.

Wiki clams that the 80186 was produced only from 1980-1982.

No it doesn't. Read it again.

 

[Random Variable]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: Random Variable

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Last time I checked, the 80186 was still being made, too.

Wiki clams that the 80186 was produced only from 1980-1982.

No it doesn't. Read it again.

Produced: From 1980 to 1982

 

[Eli]

Of course. So does AMD.

I wonder if they've shrunk the processes at all. I can only imagine what a 486 would be like on even "old" 0.13 micron technology.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

they spent all that money on the equipment to make them, why not milk every last dollar of people will pay for them

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: Eli
Of course. So does AMD.

I wonder if they've shrunk the processes at all. I can only imagine what a 486 would be like on even "old" 0.13 micron technology.

Fvcking tiny.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Random Variable

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: Random Variable

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Last time I checked, the 80186 was still being made, too.

Wiki clams that the 80186 was produced only from 1980-1982.

No it doesn't. Read it again.

Produced: From 1980 to 1982

That is wrong.

In the article, it says "The 80186 is a microprocessor that was developed by Intel circa 1982"

Then in the link at the bottom of the page, it gives more details on the chip.

"The 80186 microprocessor was developed by Intel in 1982...In 1987 Intel announced the second generation of the 80186 family: the 80C186/C188...In 1991 the 80C186 Modular Core family was again extended with the introduction of the 80C186XL"

186's are still being produced the same way that 386's are still being produced.

 

[Random Variable]

nm

 

[91TTZ]

http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/intel186/

 

[lyssword]

Lol what cracks me up is the alien conspiracy crazies on youtube claiming it was the aliens who gave microchip to us corporations, thats how the technology got so advanced. I guess the aliens gave humans the 1000's years worth of mathematics +research to them too? lmao

 

[Rubycon]

LOL there's a lot of programmable interface panels (PIP's) using Zilog Z-80 CPU's running at a blistering 4.33 MHz.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/intel186/

I don't think I've ever even seen a 186 processor before.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Damn, now you tell me. I just bought a 186!

That looks like something I could design in Max Plus.